> Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > >
> > > Performance, and *modularity*. khttpd doesn't affect anything else in
> > > the kernel, and so is a rather harmless optional feature.
> >
> > There where times where for example /proc was an option too...
> >
>
> /proc was never modular. It touches *everything*, which makes it
No, now it doesn't. It used to, and that made it a whole friggin' pain in
ass whenever we did anything near VFS. Right now _nothing_ outside of
fs/proc should care about procfs internals. There are 4 or 5 places that
still do and IMO each of such cases is a bug.
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