Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758332Ab3GPAxM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:53:12 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f179.google.com ([209.85.220.179]:43414 "EHLO mail-vc0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753847Ab3GPAxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:53:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1373935603.31535.3.camel@warfang> References: <20130715154050.GA5941@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1373935603.31535.3.camel@warfang> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:53:09 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: OwVGaH0qJdaLMQMPg1-epNzuz1k Message-ID: Subject: Re: CONFIG_* used by user-space to figure out whether a feature is on/off From: Linus Torvalds To: Raymond Jennings Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 15 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > > I'd like to point out that Google Chrome also makes use of CONFIG_ tests > to detect support for namespaces and pid containers and stuff. Hmm. It must work fine despite that. Because I run self-compiled kernels and there are no config files to be found by user apps. Neither in /proc nor in /boot. And I'm using chrome to write this. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/