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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:07:14 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix running without sysfs On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:48:10 -0600 ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > When sysfs support is compiled out the kernel still keeps and maintains > the kobject tree. So it is not safe to skip our kobject reference counting or > to avoid becoming members of the kobject tree. It is safe to not add > the networking specific sysfs attributes. > > This patch removes the sysfs special cases from net/core/dev.c > renames functions from netdev_sysfs_xxxx to netdev_kobject_xxxx > and always compiles in net-sysfs.c > > net-sysfs.c is modified with a CONFIG_SYSFS guard around the parts > that are actually sysfs specific. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> Looks good. It also fixes a use after-free in netdev_run_todo when !CONFIG_SYSFS -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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