From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:56:57 -0800
Subject: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
> kernel support enabled?

Why would you ever want to run a kernel without sysfs support?  If you
turn it off, you loose a _lot_ of functionality that you will need to
add back to your system in some other manner.

What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
off?

thanks,

greg k-h