* [PATCH] Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option
@ 2009-04-06 14:47 David Howells
2009-04-06 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06 17:06 ` Kyle McMartin
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2009-04-06 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds, akpm, jeff; +Cc: dhowells, jj, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option so that
people configuring their kernels don't have to make the choice. It can be
selected automatically by those things that require it (such as FS-Cache).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
init/Kconfig | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 09c7953..c52d1d4 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ source "arch/Kconfig"
config SLOW_WORK
default n
- bool "Enable slow work thread pool"
+ bool
help
The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
@@ -1026,6 +1026,8 @@ config SLOW_WORK
by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
disk.
+ See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+
endmenu # General setup
config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
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* Re: [PATCH] Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option
2009-04-06 14:47 [PATCH] Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option David Howells
@ 2009-04-06 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06 17:06 ` Kyle McMartin
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2009-04-06 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Howells; +Cc: torvalds, akpm, jj, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
David Howells wrote:
> Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option so that
> people configuring their kernels don't have to make the choice. It can be
> selected automatically by those things that require it (such as FS-Cache).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
thanks!
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* Re: [PATCH] Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option
2009-04-06 14:47 [PATCH] Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option David Howells
2009-04-06 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
@ 2009-04-06 17:06 ` Kyle McMartin
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kyle McMartin @ 2009-04-06 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Howells; +Cc: torvalds, akpm, jeff, jj, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:47:25PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option so that
> people configuring their kernels don't have to make the choice. It can be
> selected automatically by those things that require it (such as FS-Cache).
>
Thanks, I had the damndest time figuring out if this was appropriate
for rawhide. :)
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