From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:15:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:15:58 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:53961 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5D25FE.8010002@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:19:10 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [PATCH] add buddyinfo /proc entry References: <3D5C6410.1020706@us.ibm.com> <20020816043140.GA2478@kroah.com> <3D5CBCFC.2090006@us.ibm.com> <20020816143925.GA3957@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > All it takes is one line added to /etc/fstab mounting driverfs at /sys. > As the code is not a .config option, you are using it if you mount it or > not :) The fact that no one else will look at that mount point, > shouldn't matter to you. > > And yes, for just one thing (hey, why don't you move _all_ the vm stats > over to it), it is worth adding that one line. And you'll eventually > have to do it anyway, as these things _will_ be moving there. > > Hell, tell me which machine you are using, and I'll go add it. How long has it been in the tree (2.4 and 2.5)? I'll add it to my machine, but I am anticipating a 3 hour conversation as I explain to the other users why they got dropped to a root prompt because driverfs isn't supported when they boot. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com