Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758466AbYHDSWe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:22:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755373AbYHDSWQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:22:16 -0400 Received: from outbound-va3.frontbridge.com ([216.32.180.16]:8843 "EHLO VA3EHSOBE003.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753773AbYHDSWM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:22:12 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-33(zz1432R98dR1805M936fQzz10d3izzz2fh6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 Message-ID: <48974973.6000408@am.sony.com> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:24:51 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Bruce Fields" CC: Thomas Petazzoni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com, Matt Mackall , matthew@wil.cx, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features References: <20080731092703.661994657@free-electrons.com> <20080731093220.969460336@free-electrons.com> <20080802163848.GB30454@fieldses.org> <20080804155237.1f64892d@surf> <20080804181641.GE25940@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20080804181641.GE25940@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Aug 2008 18:21:57.0252 (UTC) FILETIME=[FAA4C440:01C8F65E] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1109 Lines: 31 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:52:37PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> Le Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:38:48 -0400, >> "J. Bruce Fields" a écrit : >> >>> Out of curiosity, why does the nfs client need disabling, but not >>> nfsd, gfs2, fuse, etc.? >> Then also need disabling. > > OK by me, but again, why exactly? Since you're replacing the locking > calls they used by stubs that just return errors, in theory nfs, nfsd, > gfs2, and the rest should still compile and run, just without locking > support, right? I think so, but haven't tested this myself. However, I would still be inclined to NOT add the extra config dependencies. Just my 2 cents. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/