Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] autofs - change CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS toCONFIG_AUTOFS_FS

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Jul 08 2013 - 02:04:48 EST


Hi Ian,

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:51:24 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 14:39 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:14:51 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Please don't do this. Find a simple way to make sure that if
> > CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is set, then "make oldconfig" (or equivalent) will
> > cause CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS to be set the same.
>
> I get what your recommending but still can't think of a way to do it,
> any thoughts?

Isn't just having

config AUTOFS4_FS
tristate
select AUTOFS_FS

enough?

> Am I correct that's a +1 for an outright rename of autofs4 to autofs
> rather than keeping the autofs4 directory and a compile stub?

I have no opinion :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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