Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750741AbWCJH5c (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:57:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750820AbWCJH5c (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:57:32 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:29926 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbWCJH5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:57:31 -0500 Subject: Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver) From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" Cc: Greg KH , Roland Dreier , rolandd@cisco.com, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: <1141966693.14517.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> References: <1141947143.10693.40.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060310003513.GA17050@suse.de> <1141951589.10693.84.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060310010050.GA9945@suse.de> <1141966693.14517.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:57:10 +0100 Message-Id: <1141977431.2876.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1096 Lines: 26 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). The general rule is "if you want to support that, do it outside the kernel.org tree". - 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/