linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Enable devtmpfs by default

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:14:22 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	kay@...y.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable devtmpfs by default

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:54:14AM +1000, Anton Blanchard 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.

All the world isn't Fedora :)

See Linus's recent thread about distro configs, that's the best solution
for something like this.

greg k-h
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