From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:56:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100117075633.GA1339@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com>
On Fri 2010-01-15 10:03:41, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:56:38AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:47:57 +0100
> > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > > Subject: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by
> > > default
> > >
> > > All major distros enable devtmpfs on recent systems, so remove
> > > the EXPERIMENTAL flag, and enable it by default to reflect how it
> > > is used today.
> >
> > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a bit
> > over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' option is
> > used.
>
> Why? All major distros need this at boot time, and as we have been
> through a release cycle with the config option, anyone who is
> incrementally updating will continue with their existing value. But new
> people coming in, will get the option as it is most likely required to
> boot properly.
Defaults should be back-compatible. This is not... people should be
still able to skip releases when upgrading.
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 7:56 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
2010-01-16 20:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-17 7:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100117075633.GA1339@ucw.cz \
--to=pavel@ucw.cz \
--cc=arjan@infradead.org \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=kay.sievers@vrfy.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome