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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: bogous binfmt_misc patch in 2.2.0-pre1
From:       Horst von Brand <vonbrand () sleipnir ! valparaiso ! cl>
Date:       1999-01-02 17:40:05
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:

[...]

> 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. 
> 
> Yes, it might cause a few unnecessary functions to be compiled that aren't
> actually ever used and thus wasting a few hundred bytes of memory, but I'd
> _much_ prefer a clean kernel that doesn't have to worry about spurious
> config options all over the place.

Just #define them to empty or (<some magic constant>) then in the affected
*.h files.
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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616

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