Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:32 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >>>> I assume nobody cares? >>> You assume wrongly. Patch NAKed... >> Do you have a use case in mind? (Just curious.) > > Embedded systems often compile without sysctl and/or procfs support. Why > shouldn't they be able to run an NFS client with RPCSEC_GSS? > > The other argument is that there is _nothing_ in the actual auth_gss > code that depends on procfs. The "dependency" (if there is one) is > between net/sunrpc/cache.c and procfs, and in fact, both sunrpc and the > auth_gss modules will compile just fine without procfs. In that case, do we really even need a PROC_FS dependency (forward or reverse) for the RPCSEC entries? It would be simple to split this patch into an NFSD_V4 part and an RPCSEC part, and just drop the RPCSEC part.