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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 19:02:03 +0400
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 19:02:03 +0400
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[SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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config INOTIFY
bool "Inotify file change notification support"
- default y
+ default n
---help---
- Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
- notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
- numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
- including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
- notification.
+ Say Y here to enable legacy in kernel inotify support. Inotify is a
+ file change notification system. It is a replacement for dnotify.
+ This option only provides the legacy inotify in kernel API. There
+ are no in tree kernel users of this interface since it is deprecated.
+ You only need this if you are loading an out of tree kernel module
+ that uses inotify.
For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
- If unsure, say Y.
+ If unsure, say N.
config INOTIFY_USER
bool "Inotify support for userspace"
- depends on INOTIFY
+ depends on FSNOTIFY
default y
---help---
Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
+ Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several
+ new features including multiple file events, one-shot support, and
+ unmount notification.
For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>