Running kmemleak without sysfs support

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Jan 20 10:56:57 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
> kernel support enabled?

Why would you ever want to run a kernel without sysfs support?  If you
turn it off, you loose a _lot_ of functionality that you will need to
add back to your system in some other manner.

What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
off?

thanks,

greg k-h



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