Re: [patch for-3.8] fs, dlm: fix build error when EXPERIMENTAL isdisabled

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Feb 12 2013 - 15:13:33 EST


On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That doesn't seem right to me... DLM has not been experimental for a
> > long time now. Why not just select CRC32 in addition to IP_SCTP ?
>
> Hmm. IP_SCTP already does a "select libcrc32c". So why doesn't that
> end up working?
>

Kconfig won't select things that CONFIG_IP_SCTP select unless its "depends
on" are satisfied, which is why I made CONFIG_DLM depend on
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.

Steven says DLM hasn't been experimental for a long time; sorry, but if an
option you select is experimental then you're experimental as well.

If you'd like to push a patch that removes EXPERIMENTAL from IP_SCTP to
David Miller, that works too. But that is a completely separate topic
from dlm. For 3.8, I suggest respecting CONFIG_IP_SCTP's requirements and
then removing EXPERIMENTAL from both if the networking guys agree.
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