From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] NFSD: Use "depends on" for PROC_FS dependency Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:22:13 -0500 Message-ID: <47B33555.8000106@oracle.com> References: <20080211221216.1047.31922.stgit@manray.1015granger.net> <20080212212325.GM18625@fieldses.org> <1202852836.9228.1.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20080212223235.GP18625@fieldses.org> <1202857069.9228.14.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Reply-To: chuck.lever@oracle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010102000604000709060403" Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:61891 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbYBMSW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:22:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1202857069.9228.14.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010102000604000709060403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --------------010102000604000709060403 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="chuck_lever.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="chuck_lever.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Chuck org:Oracle Corporation;Corporate Architecture: Linux Projects Group adr:;;1015 Granger Avenue;Ann Arbor;MI;48104;USA email;internet:chuck dot lever at nospam oracle dot com title:Principal Member of Staff tel;work:+1 248 614 5091 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------010102000604000709060403--