linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove EXPERIMENTAL from NFS

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:37:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, adkulkar@...il.iu.edu, arjan@...radead.org,
	adobriyan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove EXPERIMENTAL from NFS_FSCACHE

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 at 10:53, Christian Kujau wrote:
> there's currently an open Ubuntu bug[0], with the intent to compile 
> NFS_FSCACHE (and possibly AFS_FSCACHE, 9P_FSCACHE) into the standard 
> Ubuntu kernel. However, since *_FSCACHE still depends on EXPERIMENTAL, 
> this won't happen.
> 
> As Arjan van de Ven pointed out[1], the EXPERIMENTAL flag doesn't mean 
> that much any more, I propose the following patch to fs/nfs/Kconfig. I'd 
> do the same for fs/9p/Kconfig and fs/afs/Kconfig, but as I did not test 9p 
> or AFS, I feel it would not be appropriate for me to remove the flag.

....ping?

>
> Please consider applying.
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian.
> 
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/440522/comments/5
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/23/145
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
> 
>  Kconfig |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/Kconfig b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> index 59e5673..a43d07e 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
> @@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ config ROOT_NFS
>  	  Most people say N here.
>  
>  config NFS_FSCACHE
> -	bool "Provide NFS client caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	bool "Provide NFS client caching support"
>  	depends on NFS_FS=m && FSCACHE || NFS_FS=y && FSCACHE=y
>  	help
>  	  Say Y here if you want NFS data to be cached locally on disc through
> 
> -- 
> BOFH excuse #259:
> 
> Someone's tie is caught in the printer, and if anything else gets printed, he'll be in it too.
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-- 
BOFH excuse #258:

That's easy to fix, but I can't be bothered.
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