Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/62] Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:21:44 -0800 |
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 06:46, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Greg, please shut down people like Kay that want to enable something by >> default. We want a _minimal_ working config, not a maximal. If somebody >> has a distro that needs this, they can enable it _then_. Not "let's try to >> make people enable it whether they need it or not, because they _might_". >> >> Because "might need it" is simply not good enough. A "must have" is the >> only reason to do 'default y'. > > No problem, if that's he rule, then let's drop the "y". I always > understood the defaults as the "usually needed to bring up a box" > setting. We had this discussion already with Arjan who stated the same > as you, but we kid of missed to take action on that, sorry. > > For the "must have", we will not be able to bootup the upcoming Ubuntu > and openSUSE development distros without it, not sure about Fedora, > the support is there, but it might still work without it. Some smaller > distros also already depend on it.
Is this a case of the initial ramdisks won't work, or have you removed support from udev to create device nodes?
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