Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261942AbUJZFAC (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:00:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262077AbUJZEze (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:55:34 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5526 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261942AbUJZEvu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:51:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:49:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Robert Love Cc: ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] make dnotify a configure-time option Message-Id: <20041025214947.63031519.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1098765164.6034.38.camel@localhost> References: <1098765164.6034.38.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 15 Robert Love wrote: > > Everything is straightforward, except the removal of the > dir_notify_enable boot-time option. My contention is that there is no > reason to make dnotify a boot-time option. But even if there is, then > surely the user wants it always off, in which case the compile-time > option fulfills the need. It's actually a sysctl and is also present in 2.4. I doubt if it's very useful but it seems a bit random to be deleting it now. - 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/