From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] NFSD: Use "depends on" for PROC_FS dependency Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:57:49 -0500 Message-ID: <1202857069.9228.14.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20080211221216.1047.31922.stgit@manray.1015granger.net> <20080212212325.GM18625@fieldses.org> <1202852836.9228.1.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20080212223235.GP18625@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Chuck Lever , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]:37250 "EHLO pat.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752648AbYBLW6A (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:58:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080212223235.GP18625@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:32 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > I assume nobody cares? > > > > You assume wrongly. Patch NAKed... > > Do you have a use case in mind? (Just curious.) Embedded systems often compile without sysctl and/or procfs support. Why shouldn't they be able to run an NFS client with RPCSEC_GSS? The other argument is that there is _nothing_ in the actual auth_gss code that depends on procfs. The "dependency" (if there is one) is between net/sunrpc/cache.c and procfs, and in fact, both sunrpc and the auth_gss modules will compile just fine without procfs.