Re: [PATCH] romfs: only select BUFFER_HEAD for the block based path

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 04 2023 - 06:38:13 EST


Sorry, this should be:

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

to match the signoff. I managed to mess my mail setup, but it should
be fixed now.


On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 12:26:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> selecting BUFFER_HEAD unconditionally does not work as romfs can also
> be built with only the MTD backend and thus without CONFIG_BLOCK.
>
> Fixes: 0f842210d97a ("fs/Kconfig: Fix compile error for romfs")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/romfs/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/romfs/Kconfig b/fs/romfs/Kconfig
> index 3f6b550eee6192..f24a96a331af1b 100644
> --- a/fs/romfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/romfs/Kconfig
> @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
> config ROMFS_FS
> tristate "ROM file system support"
> depends on BLOCK || MTD
> - select BUFFER_HEAD
> help
> This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
> initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
> @@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ endchoice
> config ROMFS_ON_BLOCK
> bool
> default y if ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BLOCK || ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BOTH
> + select BUFFER_HEAD
>
> config ROMFS_ON_MTD
> bool
> --
> 2.39.2
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