Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver)

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:34:01PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:58:13PM -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).
 > 
 > Well, I can do something about SuSE, it's up to someone else to persuade
 > Red Hat :)

It's been built into Fedora kernels since it was merged upstream.
It isn't in RHEL4, as it wasn't around back in 2.6.9, and unless there's
a really compelling argument for it, I doubt it'll be backported.

		Dave

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