From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:25:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20080804182532.GF25940@fieldses.org> References: <20080731092703.661994657@free-electrons.com> <20080731093220.969460336@free-electrons.com> <20080802163848.GB30454@fieldses.org> <20080804155237.1f64892d@surf> <20080804181641.GE25940@fieldses.org> <48974973.6000408@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com, Matt Mackall , matthew@wil.cx, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Tim Bird Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:35047 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756956AbYHDSZg (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:25:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48974973.6000408@am.sony.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:24:51AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:52:37PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > >> Le Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:38:48 -0400, > >> "J. Bruce Fields" a =C3=A9crit : > >> > >>> Out of curiosity, why does the nfs client need disabling, but not > >>> nfsd, gfs2, fuse, etc.? > >> Then also need disabling. > >=20 > > OK by me, but again, why exactly? Since you're replacing the locki= ng > > calls they used by stubs that just return errors, in theory nfs, nf= sd, > > gfs2, and the rest should still compile and run, just without locki= ng > > support, right? >=20 > I think so, but haven't tested this myself. >=20 > However, I would still be inclined to NOT add the extra config > dependencies. Just my 2 cents. OK. My fear was that there was some good reason that the nfs dependenc= y was added in the first place, and that it's since been lost.... --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html