autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs

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>

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index ab2d96d..ac474a6 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ source "fs/notify/Kconfig"
 source "fs/quota/Kconfig"
 
 source "fs/autofs/Kconfig"
-source "fs/autofs4/Kconfig"
 source "fs/fuse/Kconfig"
 source "fs/overlayfs/Kconfig"
 

diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
index 2e00552..293733f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ROMFS_FS)              += romfs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS)                += qnx4/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QNX6FS_FS)                += qnx6/
 obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS)                += autofs/
-obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS)       += autofs4/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ADFS_FS)          += adfs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FUSE_FS)          += fuse/
 obj-$(CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS)       += overlayfs/

diff --git a/fs/autofs/Kconfig b/fs/autofs/Kconfig
index 6a2064e..55c3930 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/autofs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/autofs/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+config AUTOFS4_FS
+       tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
+       select AUTOFS_FS
+       help
+          This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
+          new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
+          thenew new option name.
+
+          It will go away in a release or two as people have
+          transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.
+
 config AUTOFS_FS
        tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
        default n

diff --git a/fs/autofs/init.c b/fs/autofs/init.c
index 16fb613..cc9447e 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/autofs/init.c
+++ b/fs/autofs/init.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static struct file_system_type autofs_fs_type = {
        .kill_sb        = autofs_kill_sb,
 };
 MODULE_ALIAS_FS("autofs");
+MODULE_ALIAS("autofs4");
 
 static int __init init_autofs_fs(void)
 {

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 99fda4d..0000000
--- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-config AUTOFS4_FS
-       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
-         overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
-         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/>; you also want
-         to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
-
-         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.
-
-         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.

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Makefile b/fs/autofs4/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 417dd72..0000000
--- a/fs/autofs4/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Makefile for the linux autofs-filesystem routines.
-#
-
-obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS) += autofs4.o
-
-autofs4-objs := ../autofs/init.o ../autofs/inode.o ../autofs/root.o \
-       ../autofs/symlink.o ../autofs/waitq.o ../autofs/expire.o \
-       ../autofs/dev-ioctl.o