Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:06:09 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 05:51 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 08:57 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:58 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > They are in the latest -mm tree if you wish to use them. Unfortunatly > > > > it might look like they will not work out, due to the per-cpu relay > > > > files not working properly with Paul's patches at the moment. > > > > > > Hmm, OK. > > > > > > > What's wrong with debugfs? > > > > > > It's not configured into the kernels of either of the distros I use (Red > > > Hat or SUSE). I can't have a required part of my driver depend on a > > > feature that's not enabled in the major distro kernels. > > > > sucks to be you, however I think it's equally or even more unacceptable > > to cripple the main kernel because you want to also support antique > > kernels (those more than 12 months old). > > What antique kernels? It's not enabled in the latest SLES beta > (2.6.16-git6 or so), or in Fedora rawhide (also 2.6.16-git). > > They mightn't be exactly today's kernels, but they're no more than two > or three weeks old. CONFIG_DEBUG_FS has been in the kernel for a long > time, and it's still not being picked up.
but it's a module; you can ship it no problem yourself if you go through the hell of shipping external modules
> > > The general rule is "if you > > want to support that, do it outside the kernel.org tree". > > Which "that" are you referring to?
supporting really ancient kernels
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