From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:57:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100115205722.3580b6bf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com>
> 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
> 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.
>
> Makes sense to me.
That may well be true - in which case it needs to be very clearly
documented when to enable it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-15 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-14 21:47 Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default 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 [this message]
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
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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