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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs4/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig index 44727bf18297..99fda4d6da25 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig +++ b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS - tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" + 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 @@ -7,14 +9,38 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS 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/v4/>; you also - want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. + <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want + to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. - To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be - called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your - modules configuration file. + 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. - If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or - don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the - local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say - N here. + 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. |