Re: [PATCH] ramster: depend on CONFIG_NET for sock_* functions

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 10:29 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 10:02 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig
> >> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >>  config RAMSTER
> >>       bool "Cross-machine RAM capacity sharing, aka peer-to-peer tmem"
> >> -     depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CONFIGFS_FS=y && !ZCACHE && !XVMALLOC && !HIGHMEM
> >> +     depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CONFIGFS_FS=y && !ZCACHE && !XVMALLOC && !HIGHMEM && CONFIG_NET
> >
> > s/CONFIG_NET/NET/ again, I'd say. How was this tested?
> 
> Hm... ran the build again with the patch and noticed it stopped
> complaining, but apparently it wasn't enough.

Well, my guess is that the errors you ran into weren't displayed because
a dependency on an undefined Kconfig symbol (like CONFIG_NET is) will
always fail. Ie, your patch made "RAM capacity sharing" simply disappear
from the build.


Paul Bolle