Re: [-mm patch] CACHEFILES must depend on PROC_FS

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 23:46:38 EST


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:17:36 +0100 Adrian Bunk wrote:

> I got the following compile error with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> CC fs/cachefiles/cf-main.o
> /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/cachefiles/cf-main.c: In function 'cachefiles_init':
> /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/cachefiles/cf-main.c:77: error: 'proc_root_fs' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/cachefiles/cf-main.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/cachefiles/cf-main.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [fs/cachefiles/cf-main.o] Error 1
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> This patch adds the missing dependency of CACHEFILES on PROC_FS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/Kconfig.old 2006-11-22 02:48:36.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/Kconfig 2006-11-22 02:49:01.000000000 +0100
> @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ config FSCACHE
>
> config CACHEFILES
> tristate "Filesystem caching on files"
> + depends on PROC_FS
> select FSCACHE
> help
> This permits use of a mounted filesystem as a cache for other

I made that same patch (on linux-fsdevel). David Howells replied:

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CACHEFILES uses PROC_FS, so make it a Kconfig depends.

Thanks, but the new and improved CacheFiles doesn't use procfs as Christoph
Hellwig objects to such a practice. In any case, Andrew Morton has dropped it
from -mm as it's now obsolete.


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~Randy
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