On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:24:34PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > +config BINFMT_MISC
> > + tristate "Kernel support for MISC binaries"
> > + ---help---
>
> > + You must say Y to "/proc file system support" (CONFIG_PROC_FS) to
> > + use this part of the kernel.
>
> You don't want to add an explicit dependency?
I was thinking about this and decided to check it out. It's actually
not true any more. binfmt_misc was converted (back in 2.4) to be its
own filesystem. If binfmt_misc is compiled in or as a module (?!),
procfs creates somewhere for you to mount it (/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc)
but there's no need to mount it there.
I note that if you have CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, it will actually silently fail
to create this directory.
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
proc_sys_root = proc_mkdir("sys", 0);
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) || defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC_MODULE)
proc_mkdir("sys/fs", 0);
proc_mkdir("sys/fs/binfmt_misc", 0);
#endif
So I guess I'll remove the bit from the helptext about procfs
and substitute some better words instead. Maybe I'll update
Documentation/binfmt_misc too.
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