Re: [PATCH] Make procfs obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED

Bill Davidsen wrote:

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

From: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

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.

Probably because procfs predates CONFIG_EMBEDDED by many years, and noone really thought about it. Either that or it was part of the "let's switch all of userspace to sysfs, overnight!" conspiracy.

	-hpa
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