On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:15:05 -0800 Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 1) reports deleted inode in dentry_path() consistent with that in __d_path() > > 2) modified __d_path() to use prepend(), reducing the size of __d_path() > > 3) moved all the functionality that reports mount information in /proc under > > CONFIG_PROC_FS. > > > > Could not verify if the code would work with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, since it was > > impossible to disable CONFIG_PROC_FS. Looking for ideas on how to disable > > CONFIG_PROC_FS. this worked. thanks. There was one place in ipv4 that failed compilation with proc_fs disabled. Fixed that. Otherwise everything compiled cleanly. > > Do `make menuconfig', then hit '/' and search for "proc_fs". > > It'll tell you that you need to set EMBEDDED=y to disable procfs. > > > fs/dcache.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- > > fs/namespace.c | 2 + > > fs/seq_file.c | 2 + > > include/linux/dcache.h | 3 ++ > > include/linux/seq_file.h | 3 ++ > > Please resend after testing that, thanks. with procfs disabled, the boot fails, since nash(fedora's startup script) which links with libc.so library has dependencies on /proc. Nash segfaults and so does init. looking for ideas. without passing this hurdle, its hard to test the patch :( RP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
