Re: [PATCH 0/7] bcachefs out-of-tree series
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Oct 04 2025 - 00:16:02 EST
On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 10:00:42PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> A few patches for out-of-tree bcachefs.
>
> Since bcachefs was dropped from mainline, the kconfig tweaks for lib/
> are needed for it to build out of tree; they just give a few config
> options names, so that distros can ensure they are enabled.
No. The Linux kernel is about in-tree stuff. There are not exports,
or especially Kconfigs that make things confusing for out of tree code.
Just like everyone else you'll have to live with what people do in-tree
for in-tree users.