aufs on staging

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:37:17PM +0900, hooanon05 at yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> Greg KH:
> > Ok, if aufs relies on exports that Christoph is not going to accept,
> > then there's nothing I can do to add the code to the kernel.
> > 
> > _unless_ the code will work if it is built in.  What symbols are needed
> > by aufs, and is only to allow it to be built as a module, but not as a
> > built-in filesystem?
> > 
> > If built-in will work, then it could work in staging, right?
> 
> The word 'export' I use here might be incorrect.
> Strictly speaking, it is "make some functions global" instead of "export
> symbols to external module."
> Actually the aufs patches I sent to LKML were not to build aufs as a
> module. It supports CONFIG_AUFS_FS=y only.
> There exist another GIT tree to build aufs as a module.

Ok, thanks for the detailed responses.  I guess this rules out aufs to
go into the drivers/staging/ tree, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h