| Thomas Gleixner | ec8f24b | 2019-05-19 13:07:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only |
| Alexey Dobriyan | 4591dab | 2009-01-22 10:42:52 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | config CONFIGFS_FS |
| 3 | tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" |
| Nicholas Bellinger | e205117 | 2011-01-16 21:11:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | select SYSFS |
| Alexey Dobriyan | 4591dab | 2009-01-22 10:42:52 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | help |
| Nicholas Bellinger | e205117 | 2011-01-16 21:11:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | configfs is a RAM-based filesystem that provides the converse |
| Alexey Dobriyan | 4591dab | 2009-01-22 10:42:52 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based |
| 8 | view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager |
| 9 | of kernel objects, or config_items. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the |
| 12 | same system. One is not a replacement for the other. |