From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262468AbTJNL6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:58:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262501AbTJNL6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:58:54 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:24583 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262468AbTJNL6x (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:58:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:58:48 +0100 From: Russell King To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mem=16MB laptop testing Message-ID: <20031014125848.A17145@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031014105514.GH765@holomorphy.com> <20031014045614.22ea9c4b.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031014045614.22ea9c4b.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:56:14AM -0700 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:56:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I guess not mounting /sys doesn't help here. It would be nice. Maybe with > a CONFIG_I_WILL_NEVER_MOUNT_SYSFS we could avoid all those allocations. I believe sysfs is required for mounting the root filesystem - see name_to_dev_t in init/do_mounts.c. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core