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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:18:03 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make procfs obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> 
> This patch makes procfs non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set, just like
> sysfs.  procfs is already de facto required for a large subset of
> Linux functionality.

I have no objection, but I'm curious why this wasn't done long ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 71d6b30..2c3a733 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -764,7 +764,8 @@ endmenu
>  menu "Pseudo filesystems"
>  
>  config PROC_FS
> -	bool "/proc file system support"
> +	bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
> +	default y
>  	help
>  	  This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
>  	  of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on

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