Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:56:33 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default |
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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.
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