Re: [patch] make dnotify compile-time configurable

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:21:16 -0400 Robert Love wrote:

| On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 10:11 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
| 
| > Indeed, it's been useful for months. Unfortunately my development
| > boxes are still mothballed so progress upstream is stalled.
| 
| Oh, great...
| 
| /me finds your broken out patches ...
| 
| Ah, you ifdef'ed out the dnotify variables in the inode structure.  That
| was the original reason I did this--doh.
| 
| In mine, I remove the sysctl entirely, which you don't.  I also add some
| documentation to dnotify.txt.  Not a big difference.
| 
| > > Disabling CONFIG_DNOTIFY saves a couple hundred bytes off of vmlinux.
| > 
| > Hmm, thought I saved at least 1 or 2k.
| 
| I thought my number sounded suspect.  Dunno.
| 
| Here is a respun patch ifdef'ing out the dnotify member variables in
| struct inode.  This one is diff'ed against my inode tree since the
| struct inode changes break one path or the other and, well, I like to
| mix things up.
| 
| John, want to merge this into the inotify patch?

I'd rather see inotify additions and dnotify config options kept
separate.  They may serve a similar purpose, but inotify doesn't
replace the dnotify API.  If the latter were true, combining
them would make sense IMO.


| Thanks, Matt.


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~Randy