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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:56:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110120155657.GA29375@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=NnegZ8c+S0jBafV4zA84V1aTMdwEG0Z18M=-o@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
> kernel support enabled?

Why would you ever want to run a kernel without sysfs support?  If you
turn it off, you loose a _lot_ of functionality that you will need to
add back to your system in some other manner.

What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
off?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 10:41 Running kmemleak without sysfs support Daniel Baluta
2011-01-20 10:43 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-01-20 10:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-20 12:33   ` Daniel Baluta
2011-01-20 12:45     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-20 15:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-21  9:26   ` Daniel Baluta
2011-01-21 14:02     ` Greg KH

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