Re: [PATCH v2 12/23] netpoll: Introduce netpoll_target configs

From: Mike Waychison
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 03:34:56 EST


On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:30:24AM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>>
> ....
>>
>>So, either we need to de-modulize configfs or replace configfs API
>>with sysfs API. Personally, I prefer the former one, I don't think
>>configfs should be a module as long as it can provide API's
>>for other subsystems, like debugfs.
>>
>
> To clarify, I meant "as long as the API it provides can be used by
> other core subsystems".
>

Ya, I see the problem with it being a tristate.

Why not just make netconsole support being compiled in force configfs
to be compiled in? Or does that just set bad precedent?
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