From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix build error due to not including <linux/errno.h>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:01:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070318220148.bc223088.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070319004443.GA25164@linux-mips.org>
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:44:43 +0000 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:36:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> > Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> >
> > Thank you for spotting and fixing this.
>
> It's the second time I've fixed a CONFIG_SYSFS=n bug. Of course that
> sort of thing just shouldn't happen - but the fact that in both cases
> the bug wasn't noticed for a few days makes me wonder if we simply should
> always enable CONFIG_SYSFS at some point.
>
If is a bit of a pain to maintain CONFIG_SYSFS=n. But then, it's
realtively easy to fix things when they do break, and sysfs does consume
rather a lot of memory at runtime. Hopefully someone out there is finding
SYSFS=n to be useful for deeply embedded applications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-18 12:58 [PATCH] Fix build error due to not including <linux/errno.h> Ralf Baechle
2007-03-19 0:36 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-19 0:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-03-19 6:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-01 4:58 ` Oleg Verych
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