From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753165AbZG0QS6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753101AbZG0QS5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:18:57 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:57261 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753086AbZG0QS4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:18:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:18:24 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Greg KH Cc: lkml , Lucian Adrian Grijincu Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional Message-Id: <20090727091824.38d55ea1.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20090727161031.GA15328@suse.de> References: <20090727090642.0e495919.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20090727161031.GA15328@suse.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: abhmt007.oracle.com [141.146.116.16] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010208.4A6DD369.0193:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:10:33 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:06:42AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > From: Lucian Adrian Grijincu > > Subject: [PATCH] documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional > > > > The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always > > compiled in the kernel. > > But it should be :) Well, you have the option of making it non-optional. > Seriously, who turns sysfs off these days, does anyone? If so, why? Why is it configurable then? --- ~Randy LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/