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SubjectRe: GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window)
On 03/23/2012 03:06 PM, Benjamin Poirier wrote:

> On 2012/03/23 16:18, David Teigland wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> GFS2_FS selects DLM (if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM, which is enabled).
>>>>> GFS2_FS selects IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP, which is not enabled and not
>>>>> used anywhere else in the kernel tree AFAICT.
>>>>> DLM just always selects IP_SCTP.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what we have now:
>>>>
>>>> config GFS2_FS
>>>> tristate "GFS2 file system support"
>>>> depends on (64BIT || LBDAF)
>>>> select DLM if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>> select CONFIGFS_FS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>> select SYSFS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>> select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
>>>> select FS_POSIX_ACL
>>>> select CRC32
>>>> select QUOTACTL
>>>>
>>>> menuconfig DLM
>>>> tristate "Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)"
>>>> depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET
>>>> depends on SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
>>>> select IP_SCTP
>>>>
>>>> Why does gfs2 Kconfig bother with SCTP at all? It seems that line should
>>>> just be removed. I'll also remove EXPERIMENTAL. I don't understand the
>>>> vagaries of Kconfig, so a dumb question, how could sctp_do_peeloff
>>>> possibly be undefined if we're selecting SCTP.
>>>
>>> What is selecting SCTP? DLM? so GFS2 selects DLM, but selects
>>> don't follow dependency chains. Also, the "select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP"
>>> in GFS2 is meaningless since there is no DLM_SCTP.
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/222 seems to have caused this by adding
>> the new dependency on the sctp module without any Kconfig changes.
>>
>> Should that patch have added depends IP_SCTP to the dlm and gfs2?
>>
>
> Instead of trying to select everything in GFS2, how about doing it this way?
>
> [PATCH] gfs2: use depends instead of select in kconfig
>
> Avoids having to duplicate the dependencies of what is 'select'ed (and on
> down...)
>
> Those dependencies are currently incomplete, leading to broken builds with
> GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM=y and IP_SCTP=n.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>


That seems to work for me. Thanks.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>


> ---
> fs/gfs2/Kconfig | 7 ++-----
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/Kconfig b/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> index c465ae0..eb08c9e 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
> config GFS2_FS
> tristate "GFS2 file system support"
> depends on (64BIT || LBDAF)
> - select DLM if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> - select CONFIGFS_FS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> - select SYSFS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> - select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
> select FS_POSIX_ACL
> select CRC32
> select QUOTACTL
> @@ -29,7 +25,8 @@ config GFS2_FS
>
> config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> bool "GFS2 DLM locking"
> - depends on (GFS2_FS!=n) && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && HOTPLUG
> + depends on (GFS2_FS!=n) && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && \
> + HOTPLUG && DLM && CONFIGFS_FS && SYSFS
> help
> Multiple node locking module for GFS2
>



--
~Randy


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