Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 28 (drivers/target/)

From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:38:45 -0800

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 08:50 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:39:14 -0600 James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 08:29 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:30:49 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > [The mirroring on kernel.org is running slowly]
> > > > 
> > > > Changes since 20101227:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > warning: (TARGET_CORE && GFS2_FS) selects CONFIGFS_FS which has unmet direct dependencies (SYSFS)
> > > 
> > > from:
> > > 
> > > menuconfig TARGET_CORE
> > > 	tristate "Generic Target Core Mod (TCM) and ConfigFS Infrastructure"
> > > 	select CONFIGFS_FS
> > > 
> > > but CONFIGFS_FS depends on SYSFS, so TARGET_CORE should either depend on SYSFS
> > > or (eek) it should select SYSFS.
> > 
> > The latter, I think (and actually, configfs should select sysfs).  All
> > these unmet dependencies are a minefield.
> 
> It's just another language to deal with.  Not a big deal, except for the
> twists that EXPERIMENTAL injects into it.

I agree with James on this one..  Attached is a patch to select SYSFS
and fix up some extra whitespace breakage. (jlbec CC'ed)

Thanks,

--nab

diff --git a/fs/configfs/Kconfig b/fs/configfs/Kconfig
index 13587cc..6874d75 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/configfs/Kconfig
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 config CONFIGFS_FS
 	tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
-	depends on SYSFS
+	select SYSFS
 	help
-	  configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
-	  of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
-	  view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
-	  of kernel objects, or config_items.
+	configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
+	of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
+	view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
+	of kernel objects, or config_items.
 
-	  Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
-	  same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
+	Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
+	same system. One is not a replacement for the other.