From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752676Ab0AQH4n (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:56:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752124Ab0AQH4m (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:56:42 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51447 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165Ab0AQH4l (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:56:41 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:56:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Greg KH Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default Message-ID: <20100117075633.GA1339@ucw.cz> References: <1263505677.2074.2.camel@yio.site> <20100115065638.005ac690@infradead.org> <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 wrote: > > > > > From: Kay Sievers > > > 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