Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

Randy Dunlap
2007-01-29T05:20:04Z

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:58:26 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On 26/01/07, akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz
>
> Aliens ate my brain, part 2:
>
> My IPv6 configuration evaporated, totally, out of my .config. I tracked it
> down to wierdness with net/Kconfig:
>
> if INET
>
> source "net/ipv4/Kconfig"
> source "net/netlabel/Kconfig"
>
> endif # if INET
>
> source "net/ipv6/Kconfig"
>
> (Yes, the ipv6 is now *outside* the if/endif - that's what I had to do to make
> it work). If that last 'source' was *inside* that if/endif, it became
> invisible unless I set INET to *N*, at which point ipv4 and netlabel would
> disappear, and ipv6 would become visible. If I set INET to Y, then ipv4 and
> netlabel would come back, and ipv6 would go poof again. This affected both
> 'make menuconfig' and 'make [silent]oldconfig'.
>
> .config follows. I have *no* idea what caused it.

Possibly my (bad) gfs2/dlm patch...

Please try applying Adrian Bunk's patch to see if that fixes the
IPV6 disappearing trick. (below)

---
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:08:18AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> >Temporarily at
> >
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc6-mm1/
>
> Unable to select IPV6. Menuconfig doesn't offer it when INET is selected.
> When it's not it appears in the menu, but after state change it gets away.
> The same behaviour in xconfig, gconfig.
>
> $ mkdir ../a/tst
> $ make O=../a/tst menuconfig
> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
> [...]
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf
> scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> Warning! Found recursive dependency: INET GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM SYSFS
> OCFS2_FS INET
>
> Maybe this is the problem?

Yes, patch below.

> regards,

cu
Adrian

<-- snip -->

This patch fixes a circular dependency by letting GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
and DLM depend on instead of select SYSFS.

Since SYSFS depends on EMBEDDED this change shouldn't cause any problems
for users.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

fs/dlm/Kconfig | 3 +--
fs/gfs2/Kconfig | 3 +--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/fs/gfs2/Kconfig.old 2007-01-28 16:44:17.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/fs/gfs2/Kconfig 2007-01-28 16:44:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -34,11 +34,10 @@

config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
tristate "GFS2 DLM locking module"
- depends on GFS2_FS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
+ depends on GFS2_FS && SYSFS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
select CONFIGFS_FS
select DLM
- select SYSFS
help
Multiple node locking module for GFS2

--- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/fs/dlm/Kconfig.old 2007-01-28 16:56:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/fs/dlm/Kconfig 2007-01-28 16:57:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@

config DLM
tristate "Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)"
- depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
+ depends on SYSFS && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
select CONFIGFS_FS
- select SYSFS
select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
help
A general purpose distributed lock manager for kernel or userspace

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