Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Make anon_inodes unconditional

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 19.04.19 14:09, Christian Brauner wrote:

Hi,

> From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
> VFS code and pidfd code.

I'm not convinced this is necessary. Instead the new features should
select ANON_INODES when enabled. And yes: these features should be
configurable.

Why ? Because embedded folks need to trim down the kernel and drop
everything that's not absolutely needed.


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