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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC: 2.6 patch] allow disabling DNOTIFY without EMBEDDED
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:21:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070701202122.GJ10869@stusta.de> (raw)

This patch allows disabling DNOTIFY with CIONFIG_EMBEDDED=n.

I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run 
into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks 
without dnotify support in the kernel?

Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults
to "y", and the help text recommends enabling it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

This patch has been sent on:
- 22 Jun 2007

--- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/fs/Kconfig.old	2007-06-21 18:25:20.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/fs/Kconfig	2007-06-21 18:25:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -585,17 +585,17 @@
 	depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
 	default y
 
 config DNOTIFY
-	bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
+	bool "Dnotify support"
 	default y
 	help
 	  Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
 	  that uses signals to communicate events to user-space.  There exist
 	  superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
 	  dnotify.
 
-	  Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
+	  If unsure, say Y.
 
 config AUTOFS_FS
 	tristate "Kernel automounter support"
 	help


             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-01 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01 20:21 Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-14 21:27 [RFC: 2.6 patch] allow disabling DNOTIFY without EMBEDDED Adrian Bunk
2007-08-15  7:08 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-07-29 15:02 Adrian Bunk
2007-06-21 23:51 Adrian Bunk

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