From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:27:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100116162708.2cdf996e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2511001160751g2357bf2en2bfacaabe5c2f7e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:51:23 +0100
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:57, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Why? All major distros need this at boot time, and as we have been
> >
> > No they don't.
> >
> > Centos doesn't (in fact I suspect it'll break)
> > Fedora 11 doesn't
> > Fedora 12 doesn't seem to (but seems to be willing to use it)
> > Ditto all the older SuSE, Ubuntu etc releases that are *still*
> > active/supported/maintained
>
> Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, ... All releases currently in development enable
> and use it.
Yes - in future your statement may become true (or devtmpfs get obsoleted
by the next best thing. Thats why it needs to be documented if it is set
that way - I've no problem with it being set that way at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-16 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-14 21:47 Kay Sievers
2010-01-15 14:08 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 18:02 ` Greg KH
2010-01-15 14:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-15 18:03 ` Greg KH
2010-01-15 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-16 15:51 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-16 16:27 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-01-16 20:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-17 7:56 ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-17 14:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-20 17:53 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-21 6:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-21 16:37 ` Greg KH
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