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There's no need to retain the fs/autofs4 directory for backward compatibility. Adding an AUTOFS4_FS fragment to the autofs Kconfig and a module alias for autofs4 is sufficient for almost all cases. Not keeping fs/autofs4 remnants will prevent "insmod <path>/autofs4/autofs4.ko" from working but this shouldn't be used in automation scripts rather than modprobe(8). There were some comments about things to look out for with the module rename in the fs/autofs4/Kconfig that is removed by this patch, see the commit patch if you are interested. One potential problem with this change is that when the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS is removed any AUTOFS4_FS entries will be removed from the kernel config, resulting in no autofs file system being built if there is no AUTOFS_FS entry also. This would have also happened if the fs/autofs4 remnants had remained and is most likely to be a problem with automated builds. Please check your build configurations before the removal which will occur after the next couple of kernel releases. Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> [ With edits and commit message from Ian Kent ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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config AUTOFS4_FS
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tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
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select AUTOFS_FS
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help
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This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
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new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
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thenew new option name.
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It will go away in a release or two as people have
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transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.
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config AUTOFS_FS
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tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
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default n
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help
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The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
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on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
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overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
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automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
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To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
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<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
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to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
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To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
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called autofs.
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If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
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don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
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local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
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N here.
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