Re: [PATCH] cgroup: support checking of subsystem dependencies (v2)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 04:55:40 EST


On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:43:30 +0800 Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The whole patch doesn't do anything. Perhaps there's another patch in
> > the pipeline somewhere which adds one or more ->subsys_depend
> > implementations, but I cannot find it. If so, I'd have expected this
> > patch to be titled [1/N].
> >
>
> Yes, the patch does nothing actually. Daisuke Nishimura-san's original swap
> controller needed to be mounted with memory controller, but the newer
> version makes it an addon to memory controller, so it currently doesn't
> need the feature this patch provides.
>
> Or I can keep this patch until some new cgroup subsystem needs it ?

That would be better. Once something needs this patch, we do

[patch 1/n]: cgroup: support checking of subsystem dependencies
[patch 2/n]: <use it>
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