linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] allow disabling DNOTIFY without EMBEDDED

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Message-Id: <20070815170807.aacdf871.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:07 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] allow disabling DNOTIFY without EMBEDDED

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:27:12 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This patch allows disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n.
> 
> I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run 
> into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks 
> without dnotify support in the kernel?
> 
> Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults
> to "y", and the help text recommends enabling it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
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