Re: Running kmemleak without sysfs support

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
>> kernel support enabled?
>
> Why would you ever want to run a kernel without sysfs support?  If you
> turn it off, you loose a _lot_ of functionality that you will need to
> add back to your system in some other manner.

I totally agree with you. But we've done it to save memory.

> What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
> off?

There's nothing wrong with sysfs. In fact, I like it!

thanks,
Daniel.

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