xref: /linux/fs/configfs/Kconfig (revision 4591dabe27ec0f7928fb73d93694698e21dc769e)
1*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyanconfig CONFIGFS_FS
2*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
3*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on SYSFS
4*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	help
5*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
6*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
7*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
8*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  of kernel objects, or config_items.
9*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan
10*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
11*4591dabeSAlexey Dobriyan	  same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
12