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diff --git a/fs/autofs/Kconfig b/fs/autofs/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b3a6b142 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/autofs/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +config AUTOFS4_FS + tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support" + select AUTOFS_FS + help + This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the + new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select + the new option name. + + It will go away in a release or two as people have + transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS. + +config AUTOFS_FS + tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" + default n + help + The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems + on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce + overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD + automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. + + To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from + <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want + to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. + + To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be + called autofs. + + If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or + don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the + local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say + N here. |