Re: xfs depends on exportfs

[Keith Owens]

Jan Engelhardt (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:16:51 +0100 (MET)) wrote:
>I could not find a clue on the first try on why xfs needs exportfs.
>The Kconfig says "select EXPORTFS if CONFIG_NFSD!=n", but there are no 
>occurrences of CONFIG_NFS* or CONFIG_EXP* in any of the files in fs/xfs/.
>Did I miss something or this a superfluous line in Kconfig? Interestingly 
>tho, `modinfo xfs.ko` returns "exportfs", so I suppose it's somewhere, well 
>hidden. If so, where?

XFS uses find_exported_dentry().

Hint: nm fs/xfs/xfs.ko | grep ' U .*exp'

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