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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: bogous binfmt_misc patch in 2.2.0-pre1
From:       MOLNAR Ingo <mingo () chiara ! csoma ! elte ! hu>
Date:       1999-01-01 22:55:25
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So what I suggested as the real fix is to leave the internal /proc
> interfaces there even if /proc doesn't actually exist: that way, when
> somebody disables /proc in the config, everything else will still happily
> compile as if it was there, it just won't do anything. 

yep there are only 40 #if SMP dependencies in the 'main' kernel C files,
and 270 #if PROC_FS dependencies ... thats nonsense.

(the worst #ifdef offender btw. is MODULES, but those are mostly clean and
isolated. Could be solved with a section trick though ...)

-- mingo


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