Re: ore: FIX breakage when MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 14:22 -0800, Boaz Harrosh wrote: 
> On 11/29/2011 09:33 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 14:21 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: 
> >> On 2011-11-29 02:13, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>> The solution is to force all users of ORE (exofs, nfs) to manually
> >>> select everything auto-magically selected before.
> >>
> >> How about using "depend ORE" rather than "select ORE"?
> > 
> > Right. Make PNFS_OBJLAYOUT and EXOFS_FS depend on ASYNC_XOR (or select
> > it) and then make ORE depend on EXOFS_FS || PNFS_OBJLAYOUT.
> > 
> > There should be no need to add the 'select ORE'...
> > 
> 
> No! guys!
> 
> One it will not solve my problem because any
> solution that needs to inspect exofs/Kconfig file will
> not work if MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not selected and your
> solutions involve that.

Then move ORE _out_ of MISC_FILESYSTEMS. There is no reason why it needs
to be there as long as the things it depends on are there.

> And two:
> All the user needs to do is Select NFS4.1 everything
> else should be done automatically. He should not need
> to go to misc-filesystems and select ORE so he can have
> pnfs-objects. That's a nightmare.

The solution I proposed didn't involve having the user select anything
other than NFSv4.1 and possibly ASYNC_XOR.

> And anyway the current Kernel rule is that a user of a library
> needs to select it and all it's dependencies, because select
> is not recursive. Now I devised a little skim that can avoid

...and this is _my_ nightmare. I dont' _want_ these selects anywhere in
the NFS subsystem.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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