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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-08 04:39:37 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-08 04:39:37 +0300
commit68abbe729567cef128b2c2141f2ed2567f3b8372 (patch)
treeaa75c39cc815eee4d7cc8db2988fe10879fccd3e /fs/autofs4/Kconfig
parentba1b7309fc2e909a5828c36a7cd187e5d7df6f53 (diff)
parent016e92da037e0b43dd5e5848c19b0b9749506963 (diff)
downloadlinux-68abbe729567cef128b2c2141f2ed2567f3b8372.tar.xz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - ocfs2 updates - v9fs updates - MM - procfs updates - lib/ updates - autofs updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits) autofs: small cleanup in autofs_getpath() autofs: clean up includes autofs: comment on selinux changes needed for module autoload autofs: update MAINTAINERS entry for autofs autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation autofs: rename autofs documentation files autofs: create autofs Kconfig and Makefile autofs: delete fs/autofs4 source files autofs: update fs/autofs4/Makefile autofs: update fs/autofs4/Kconfig autofs: copy autofs4 to autofs autofs4: use autofs instead of autofs4 everywhere autofs4: merge auto_fs.h and auto_fs4.h fs/binfmt_misc.c: do not allow offset overflow checkpatch: improve patch recognition lib/ucs2_string.c: add MODULE_LICENSE() lib/mpi: headers cleanup lib/percpu_ida.c: use _irqsave() instead of local_irq_save() + spin_lock lib/idr.c: remove simple_ida_lock lib/bitmap.c: micro-optimization for __bitmap_complement() ...
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diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
index 44727bf18297..99fda4d6da25 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
config AUTOFS4_FS
- tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
+ tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3 and v5)"
+ default n
+ depends on AUTOFS_FS = n
help
The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
@@ -7,14 +9,38 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS
automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
- want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
+ <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
+ to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
- To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
- called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
- modules configuration file.
+ This module is in the process of being renamed from autofs4 to
+ autofs. Since autofs is now the only module that provides the
+ autofs file system the module is not version 4 specific.
- If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
- don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
- local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
- N here.
+ The autofs4 module is now built from the source located in
+ fs/autofs. The autofs4 directory and its configuration entry
+ will be removed two kernel versions from the inclusion of this
+ change.
+
+ Changes that will need to be made should be limited to:
+ - source include statments should be changed from autofs_fs4.h to
+ autofs_fs.h since these two header files have been merged.
+ - user space scripts that manually load autofs4.ko should be
+ changed to load autofs.ko. But since the module directory name
+ and the module name are the same as the file system name there
+ is no need to manually load module.
+ - any "alias autofs autofs4" will need to be removed.
+ - due to the autofs4 module directory name not being the same as
+ its file system name autoloading didn't work properly. Because
+ of this kernel configurations would often build the module into
+ the kernel. This may have resulted in selinux policies that will
+ prevent the autofs module from autoloading and will need to be
+ updated.
+
+ Please configure AUTOFS_FS instead of AUTOFS4_FS from now on.
+
+ NOTE: Since the modules autofs and autofs4 use the same file system
+ type name of "autofs" only one can be built. The "depends"
+ above will result in AUTOFS4_FS not appearing in .config for
+ any setting of AUTOFS_FS other than n and AUTOFS4_FS will
+ appear under the AUTOFS_FS entry otherwise which is intended
+ to draw attention to the module rename change.