[openib-general] Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:58 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > They are in the latest -mm tree if you wish to use them.  Unfortunatly
> > it might look like they will not work out, due to the per-cpu relay
> > files not working properly with Paul's patches at the moment.
> 
> Hmm, OK.
> 
> > What's wrong with debugfs?
> 
> It's not configured into the kernels of either of the distros I use (Red
> Hat or SUSE).  I can't have a required part of my driver depend on a
> feature that's not enabled in the major distro kernels.

sucks to be you, however I think it's equally or even more unacceptable
to cripple the main kernel because you want to also support antique
kernels (those more than 12 months old). The general rule is "if you
want to support that, do it outside the kernel.org tree".