linux-kernel - [PATCH] romfs: only select BUFFER

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Date:   Fri,  4 Aug 2023 12:26:48 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     lizetao1@...wei.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] romfs: only select BUFFER_HEAD for the block based path

selecting BUFFER_HEAD unconditionally does not work as romfs can also
be built with only the MTD backend and thus without CONFIG_BLOCK.

Fixes: 0f842210d97a ("fs/Kconfig: Fix compile error for romfs")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 fs/romfs/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/romfs/Kconfig b/fs/romfs/Kconfig
index 3f6b550eee6192..f24a96a331af1b 100644
--- a/fs/romfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/romfs/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 config ROMFS_FS
 	tristate "ROM file system support"
 	depends on BLOCK || MTD
-	select BUFFER_HEAD
 	help
 	  This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
 	  initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
@@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ endchoice
 config ROMFS_ON_BLOCK
 	bool
 	default y if ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BLOCK || ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BOTH
+	select BUFFER_HEAD
 
 config ROMFS_ON_MTD
 	bool
-- 
2.39.2