From: daniel.baluta@gmail.com (Daniel Baluta)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:26:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik5zwNreaYgwN52pnTN8+cDnpoTuXhGFPXxP5=h@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110120155657.GA29375@kroah.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 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.
I totally agree with you. But we've done it to save memory.
> What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
> off?
There's nothing wrong with sysfs. In fact, I like it!
thanks,
Daniel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 9:26 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
2011-01-21 9:26 ` Daniel Baluta [this message]
2011-01-21 14:02 ` Greg KH
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