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Date:   Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:20:31 +0800
From:   "Ian Kent" <raven@themaw.net>
To:     "Sven Joachim" <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     autofs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/*/configs/*defconfig: Replace AUTOFS4_FS by AUTOFS_FS
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2023-07-29 14:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 13:01, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Commit a2225d931f75 ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
>>> promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
>>> within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
>>> happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.
>>
>> Ok, I ran the script, and also decided that we might as well remove
>> the AUTOFS4 legacy naming stub entry by now.
>>
>> It has been five years, and people will have either picked up the new
>> name with 'make oldconfig', or they just don't use 'make oldconfig' at
>> all.
>
> I had not added the suggested the removal of AUTOFS4_FS from the Kconfig
> in my patch, because some projects seem to have have copy-pasted from
> the kernel's defconfig files, e.g. systemd[1].  Hopefully not a big deal
> for actual users, but worth mentioning.

Right, it's time to do this though.
Hopefully the systemd maintainers will post to the autofs mailing list for advice.

Ian