> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
> > Bad idea if running with root mounted over NFS for example.
> >
> > The fact that a complete running system does in some way depend
> > on /proc beeing mounted is bad in itself too. This is mainly
> > due to the fact that all the strongly kernel
> > tangled userland utilities in linux are maintained separately
> > from the kernel source tree, and are in most cases poorly written
> > or maintained.
>
> My RFC does NOT mean that everyone HAS to _mount_ or _use_ procfs, all I
> want is that everyone _compiles_ procfs into ther kernel, as everyone is
> doing right now anyway. [I bet you never even tried to compile a kernel
> without procfs!]
I have, several times, and it worked just fine... Of course, all the
MCA-specific drivers that I used at the time had decent and proper #ifdef
CONFIG_PROC_FS entries... It helped to save quited some size, actually.
If you have 2 or 4 MB of memory, you want to cut wherever it's possible.
/David
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