Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Paul Blazejowski <diffie@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:10:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050130231055.GA7103@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501302358270.6118@scrub.home>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:00:05AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >  
> > +config WANT_EXPORTFS
> > +	tristate
> > +	select EXPORTFS
> > +
> >  config EXPORTFS
> >  	tristate
> > -	default NFSD
> >  
> 
> What's the difference between these two?

WANT_EXPORTFS gets selected by NFSD.

EXPORTFS is usually WANT_EXPORTFS, but if WANT_EXPORTFS=m and 
XFS_WANT_EXPORT=y, then EXPORTFS=y.

Since XFS_WANT_EXPORT itself depends on WANT_EXPORTFS this was my 
workaround to avoid a circular dependency.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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