From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support kernel/hotplug sysctl variable when !CONFIG_NET
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:43:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100607174350.GA7807@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275911832-11667-1-git-send-email-abbotti@mev.co.uk>
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:57:12PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
>
> The kernel/hotplug sysctl variable (/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file) was
> made conditional on CONFIG_NET by commit
> f743ca5e10f4145e0b3e6d11b9b46171e16af7ce (applied in 2.6.18) to fix
> problems with undefined references in 2.6.16 when CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y &&
> !CONFIG_NET, but this restriction is no longer needed.
Why is this restriction no longer needed? What changed?
> This patch makes the kernel/hotplug sysctl variable depend only on
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
Why is this needed? Are you really running without a network and still
want to change the default /sbin/hotplug binary?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-07 11:57 [PATCH] Support kernel/hotplug sysctl variable when !CONFIG_NET Ian Abbott
2010-06-07 12:14 ` Ian Abbott
2010-06-07 17:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-06-07 18:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-07 18:16 ` Greg KH
2010-06-07 18:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-07 18:49 ` Greg KH
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