[xfs-masters] [PATCH -next] xfs: eliminate kconfig dependency warning

Randy Dunlap randy.dunlap at oracle.com
Thu Oct 14 10:44:07 CDT 2010


On 10/14/10 02:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:01:42PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com>
>>
>> Fix kconfig dependency warning to satisfy dependencies:
>>
>> warning: (XFS_FS && BLOCK || NFSD && NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS && INET && FILE_LOCKING && BKL) selects EXPORTFS which has unmet direct dependencies (NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS)
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what this gibberish means, but I'm pretty sure it
> does not make sense.
> 
> EXPORTFS is a small module that doesn't have any dependencie, and it's
> needed by XFS for the by-handle operation, and by nfsd for the same
> thing.  It has absolutely nothing to do with networking or network
> filesystems (as in network filesystem clients).
> 

Thanks, Dave and Christoph.  I'll look elsewhere for the glitch.

-- 
~Randy
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