[Drbd-dev] drbd-8.0.1 add dependencies to Kconfig

[Philipp Reisner]

Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 18:14 schrieb Maxim Uvarov:
> Hello all,
>
> I have suggestion to add dependencies on CRYPTO and CONNECTOR to the
> drbr patches
> to avoid compilation errors due to wrong configuration.
> What do you think about it? Patches for drbd-8.0.1 are bellow:
>
> Best regards,
> Max Uvarov.
>
>
> --- drbd/Kconfig        2006-11-20 23:05:03.000000000 +0300
> +++ drbd/Kconfig_new    2007-03-13 19:42:12.000000000 +0300
> @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
>         tristate "DRBD Distributed replicated block device support"
>         select INET
>         select PROC_FS
> +       select CRYPTO
> +       select CRYPTO_HMAC
> +       select CONNECTOR
>         ---help---
>           Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high
> availability
>           clusters.  This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a
>


The "select CONNECTOR" is already there, got in after 8.0.1 was released.
DRBD should actually compile without the Crypto stuff ( I have not
verified this in therecent time ). Then the shared secret based
connection authentification is simply not available.
>
> -ifndef CONFIG_CONNECTOR
> -       drbd-objs += connector.o cn_queue.o
> -endif
> -
> obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD)     += drbd.o


We will keep that part, because it is possible to use DRBD on 
early Linux-2.6.x kernels that did not had the connector in the
main tree.

-Phil
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