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author | Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> | 2018-06-07 17:11:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -0700 |
commit | 6ed38746041810219ca6b676904f05fe3a8fd333 (patch) | |
tree | f2428e692dcac74174199207ab52043f168a405b /fs/autofs4/Kconfig | |
parent | ebc921ca9b92a3cf304d99bd7b7f373ec78c7ed7 (diff) |
autofs: update fs/autofs4/Kconfig
Update Kconfig and add a depricated warning.
[raven@themaw.net: make autofs4 Kconfig depend on AUTOFS_FS]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152687649097.8263.7046086367407522029.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152626706133.28589.11994171621899212952.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs4/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs4/Kconfig | 32 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig index 44727bf18297..53bc592a250d 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig +++ b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ 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 help The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce @@ -7,14 +8,25 @@ 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. + + Please configure AUTOFS_FS instead of AUTOFS4_FS from now on. |