From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [-mm patch] CONFIGFS_FS: "If unsure, say N."
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:30:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050630013011.GF23823@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050630011015.GC27478@stusta.de>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:10:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The question is:
> Assume a user doesn't use external modules, will enabling this option
> have any effect for him except that it wastes some bytes of his RAM?
>
> sysfs is useful in this case.
> How is configfs useful in this case?
I'm not saying it is. I'm saying that "Hey, if you are unsure
you want 'N'" is a good thing to say, but removing the description of
"what configfs is" is unhelpful and unneeded.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 8:03 [-mm patch] CONFIGFS_FS shouldn't be user-visible Adrian Bunk
2005-06-29 21:30 ` Joel Becker
2005-06-30 0:47 ` [-mm patch] CONFIGFS_FS: "If unsure, say N." Adrian Bunk
2005-06-30 0:57 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2005-06-30 1:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-30 1:30 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2005-07-02 10:58 ` Adrian Bunk
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