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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700 |
| commit | bbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (patch) | |
| tree | 216fdc1cbef450ca688135c5b8969169482d9a48 /fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig | |
| parent | 3e48e656903e9fd8bc805c6a2c4264d7808d315b (diff) | |
| parent | 657a77fa7284d8ae28dfa48f1dc5d919bf5b2843 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-next
Conflicts:
crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c
drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h
drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c
drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig b/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig index 44679284102..5356884289a 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig @@ -1,26 +1,30 @@ config INOTIFY bool "Inotify file change notification support" - default y + default n ---help--- - Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change - notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes - numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features - including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount - notification. + Say Y here to enable legacy in kernel inotify support. Inotify is a + file change notification system. It is a replacement for dnotify. + This option only provides the legacy inotify in kernel API. There + are no in tree kernel users of this interface since it is deprecated. + You only need this if you are loading an out of tree kernel module + that uses inotify. For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> - If unsure, say Y. + If unsure, say N. config INOTIFY_USER bool "Inotify support for userspace" - depends on INOTIFY + depends on FSNOTIFY default y ---help--- Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. + Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several + new features including multiple file events, one-shot support, and + unmount notification. For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> |