From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kay@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable devtmpfs by default
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120723105227.28e3d792@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723115414.724e0046@kryten>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:54:14 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
> udev now requires CONFIG_DEVTMPFS so make it default to y.
>
> I noticed this when booting a ppc64 pseries_defconfig on Fedora 17
> and it paniced because it couldn't mount the root device.
NAK. As Linus keeps saying we shouldn't go randomly turning features on
at people.
See the discussion on having a distro configuration - that will fix this
problem properly and for good.
You need half a dozen other things enabled to make Fedora boot many of
them quite obscure LVM settings.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-23 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-23 1:54 Anton Blanchard
2012-07-23 9:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-07-23 15:14 ` Greg KH
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