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    tmpfs: depend on shmem · 3f96b79a
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    CONFIG_SHMEM off gives you (ramfs masquerading as) tmpfs, even when
    CONFIG_TMPFS is off: that's a little anomalous, and I'd intended to make
    more sense of it by removing CONFIG_TMPFS altogether, always enabling its
    code when CONFIG_SHMEM; but so many defconfigs have CONFIG_SHMEM on
    CONFIG_TMPFS off that we'd better leave that as is.
    
    But there is no point in asking for CONFIG_TMPFS if CONFIG_SHMEM is off:
    make TMPFS depend on SHMEM, which also prevents TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
    shmem_acl.o being pointlessly built into the kernel when SHMEM is off.
    
    And a selfish change, to prevent the world from being rebuilt when I
    switch between CONFIG_SHMEM on and off: the only CONFIG_SHMEM in the
    header files is mm.h shmem_lock() - give that a shmem.c stub instead.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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