On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:40:20AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > According to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt, "select" is OK to > use on non-visible options like NFS_ACL_SUPPORT, LOCKD, and SUNRPC, but > generally "depends on" is preferred for setting visible options. > Apparently "select" doesn't do proper dependency checking, it just forces > the value of the named option. > > NFS_FS looks correct in this regard. > > However, NFSD is probably not correct... for example, instead of "select > NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4" we should probably instead add a "depends on > NFSD_TCP" under NFSD_V4.
OK. > (Alternately, NFSD_TCP could just go away... hint hint). I guess that would be OK by me, but I'm not volunteering. > I'll propose some patches to rectify some of this and fix up the out- > of-date help texts. That'd be great, thanks! --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
