netdev - Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: drop "select NETVM"

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Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:08:17 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: drop "select NETVM"

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 12:51:18PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> ACK.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 05:02:31PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > The Kconfig entry for SUNRPC_SWAP selects NETVM. That select statement
> > was added in commit a564b8f0398636ba30b07c0eaebdef7ff7837249 ("nfs:
> > enable swap on NFS").
> 
> Cc'ing Mel Gorman just in case there was something else going on there.
> 
> --b.
> 
> > But there's no Kconfig symbol NETVM. It apparently
> > was only in used in development versions of the swap over nfs
> > functionality but never entered mainline. Anyhow, it is a nop and can
> > safely be dropped.
> > 

Correct, the NETVM symbol existed in an early version of swap-over-nfs
that I failed to clean up properly. Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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