From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix running without sysfs Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070926.220305.130145916.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org To: ebiederm@xmission.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45213 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbXI0FDF (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:03:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:48:10 -0600 > > When sysfs support is compiled out the kernel still keeps and maintains > the kobject tree. So it is not safe to skip our kobject reference counting or > to avoid becoming members of the kobject tree. It is safe to not add > the networking specific sysfs attributes. > > This patch removes the sysfs special cases from net/core/dev.c > renames functions from netdev_sysfs_xxxx to netdev_kobject_xxxx > and always compiles in net-sysfs.c > > net-sysfs.c is modified with a CONFIG_SYSFS guard around the parts > that are actually sysfs specific. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Applied to net-2.6.24