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    fs: remove mandatory file locking support · f7e33bdb
    Jeff Layton authored
    We added CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING in 2015, and soon after turned it
    off in Fedora and RHEL8. Several other distros have followed suit.
    
    I've heard of one problem in all that time: Someone migrated from an
    older distro that supported "-o mand" to one that didn't, and the host
    had a fstab entry with "mand" in it which broke on reboot. They didn't
    actually _use_ mandatory locking so they just removed the mount option
    and moved on.
    
    This patch rips out mandatory locking support wholesale from the kernel,
    along with the Kconfig option and the Documentation file. It also
    changes the mount code to ignore the "mand" mount option instead of
    erroring out, and to throw a big, ugly warning.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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