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