Re: ore: FIX breakage when MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set

[Benny Halevy]

On 2011-11-29 02:13, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> As Reported by Randy Dunlap
> 
> When MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not enabled:
> 
> fs/built-in.o: In function `objio_alloc_io_state':
> objio_osd.c:(.text+0xcb525): undefined reference to `ore_get_rw_state'
> fs/built-in.o: In function `_write_done':
> objio_osd.c:(.text+0xcb58d): undefined reference to `ore_check_io'
> fs/built-in.o: In function `_read_done':
> ...
> 
> When MISC_FILESYSTEMS, which is more of a GUI thing then anything else,
> is not selected. exofs/Kconfig is never examined during Kconfig,
> and it can not do it's magic stuff to automatically select everything

nit: s/it's/its/

> needed.
> 
> The solution is to force all users of ORE (exofs, nfs) to manually
> select everything auto-magically selected before.

How about using "depend ORE" rather than "select ORE"?

> 
> (This is  why it is a bad idea to put libraries in random parts of
>  the tree)
> 
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/exofs/Kconfig |   17 +++++++++--------
>  fs/nfs/Kconfig   |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/exofs/Kconfig b/fs/exofs/Kconfig
> index da42f32..6b05d99 100644
> --- a/fs/exofs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/exofs/Kconfig
> @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
> -# Note ORE needs to "select ASYNC_XOR". So Not to force multiple selects
> -# for every ORE user we do it like this. Any user should add itself here
> -# at the "depends on EXOFS_FS || ..." with an ||. The dependencies are
> -# selected here, and we default to "ON". So in effect it is like been
> -# selected by any of the users.
> +# ORE - Objects Raid Engine (libore.ko)
> +# This library needs to be selected by it's users for example the below EXOFS
> +# filesystem.

nit:
This library needs to be selected by its users. For example, see
EXOFS_FS below.

Benny

> +# All users must do:
> +#	depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD
> +#	select ASYNC_XOR
> +#	select ORE
>  config ORE
>  	tristate
> -	depends on EXOFS_FS || PNFS_OBJLAYOUT
> -	select ASYNC_XOR
> -	default SCSI_OSD_ULD
>  
>  config EXOFS_FS
>  	tristate "exofs: OSD based file system support"
>  	depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD
> +	select ASYNC_XOR
> +	select ORE
>  	help
>  	  EXOFS is a file system that uses an OSD storage device,
>  	  as its backing storage.
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/Kconfig b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> index dbcd821..3708d76 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> @@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ config PNFS_BLOCK
>  config PNFS_OBJLAYOUT
>  	tristate
>  	depends on NFS_FS && NFS_V4_1 && SCSI_OSD_ULD
> +	select ASYNC_XOR
> +	select ORE
>  	default m
>  
>  config ROOT_NFS
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