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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-11 18:22:34 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-11 18:22:34 +0300 |
commit | a2225d931f75ddd3c39f4d0d195fad99dfd68671 (patch) | |
tree | 5b9333556f2fb3f10ea1864f095d8e2f86ddf373 /fs/autofs4 | |
parent | 0f105cf4f60e5afdf2932fed7f05ce776ce14289 (diff) | |
download | linux-a2225d931f75ddd3c39f4d0d195fad99dfd68671.tar.xz |
autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs
There's no need to retain the fs/autofs4 directory for backward
compatibility.
Adding an AUTOFS4_FS fragment to the autofs Kconfig and a module alias
for autofs4 is sufficient for almost all cases. Not keeping fs/autofs4
remnants will prevent "insmod <path>/autofs4/autofs4.ko" from working
but this shouldn't be used in automation scripts rather than
modprobe(8).
There were some comments about things to look out for with the module
rename in the fs/autofs4/Kconfig that is removed by this patch, see the
commit patch if you are interested.
One potential problem with this change is that when the
fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS is removed any AUTOFS4_FS
entries will be removed from the kernel config, resulting in no autofs
file system being built if there is no AUTOFS_FS entry also.
This would have also happened if the fs/autofs4 remnants had remained
and is most likely to be a problem with automated builds.
Please check your build configurations before the removal which will
occur after the next couple of kernel releases.
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
[ With edits and commit message from Ian Kent ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs4')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs4/Kconfig | 46 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs4/Makefile | 9 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig deleted file mode 100644 index 99fda4d6da25..000000000000 --- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -config AUTOFS4_FS - tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3 and v5)" - default n - depends on AUTOFS_FS = n - help - The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems - on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce - overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD - 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/>; you also want - to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. - - 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. - - 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. - - due to the autofs4 module directory name not being the same as - its file system name autoloading didn't work properly. Because - of this kernel configurations would often build the module into - the kernel. This may have resulted in selinux policies that will - prevent the autofs module from autoloading and will need to be - updated. - - Please configure AUTOFS_FS instead of AUTOFS4_FS from now on. - - NOTE: Since the modules autofs and autofs4 use the same file system - type name of "autofs" only one can be built. The "depends" - above will result in AUTOFS4_FS not appearing in .config for - any setting of AUTOFS_FS other than n and AUTOFS4_FS will - appear under the AUTOFS_FS entry otherwise which is intended - to draw attention to the module rename change. diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Makefile b/fs/autofs4/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 417dd726d9ef..000000000000 --- a/fs/autofs4/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -# -# Makefile for the linux autofs-filesystem routines. -# - -obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS) += autofs4.o - -autofs4-objs := ../autofs/init.o ../autofs/inode.o ../autofs/root.o \ - ../autofs/symlink.o ../autofs/waitq.o ../autofs/expire.o \ - ../autofs/dev-ioctl.o |