linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: default to no mandatory locking

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Message-ID: <20200128145347.5e4fc5db@ezekiel.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:53:47 +0100
From:   Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: default to no mandatory locking

If the help text says this code is dead, the option itself should
not default to y.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
---
 fs/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 7b623e9fc1b0..fc60b8bbebc2 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ config FILE_LOCKING
 config MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
 	bool "Enable Mandatory file locking"
 	depends on FILE_LOCKING
-	default y
+	default n
 	help
 	  This option enables files appropriately marked files on appropriely
 	  mounted filesystems to support mandatory locking.
-- 
2.16.4


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