Re: [PATCH -next] drivers/base/inode.c: let vmstat_text be optional

[Randy Dunlap]

On 08/04/11 19:38, Cong Wang wrote:
> ä 2011å08æ05æ 06:22, Randy Dunlap åé:
>> From: Randy Dunlap<rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> vmstat_text is only available when PROC_FS or SYSFS is enabled.
>> This causes build errors in drivers/base/node.c when they are
>> both disabled:
>>
>> drivers/built-in.o: In function `node_read_vmstat':
>> node.c:(.text+0x10e28f): undefined reference to `vmstat_text'
>>
>> Rather than litter drivers/base/node.c with #ifdef/#endif around
>> the affected lines of code, add macros for optional sysdev
>> attributes so that those lines of code will be ignored, without
>> using #ifdef/#endif in the .c file(s).  I.e., the ifdeffery
>> is done only in a header file with sysdev_create_file_optional()
>> and sysdev_remove_file_optional().
>>
> 
> This looks ugly for me, because other sysfs files here are not optional
> only due to that they don't rely on vmstat_text.
> 
> I still think my approach to fix this is better, that is, introducing
> a new Kconfig for drivers/base/node.c which depends on CONFIG_SYSFS.

Did you post a patch for that?  I must have missed it.

thanks,
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~Randy
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