On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:48:10 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> > When sysfs support is compiled out the kernel still keeps and maintains > the kobject tree. So it is not safe to skip our kobject reference counting > or > to avoid becoming members of the kobject tree. It is safe to not add > the networking specific sysfs attributes. > > This patch removes the sysfs special cases from net/core/dev.c > renames functions from netdev_sysfs_xxxx to netdev_kobject_xxxx > and always compiles in net-sysfs.c > > net-sysfs.c is modified with a CONFIG_SYSFS guard around the parts > that are actually sysfs specific. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good. It also fixes a use after-free in netdev_run_todo when !CONFIG_SYSFS -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
