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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:55:42 -0800 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> Cc: x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, pebolle@...cali.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 26.11.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Greg KH: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:36:52AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> systemd has a hard dependency on CONFIG_FHANDLE. > > > > It's been this way for a very long time, why is this suddenly an issue? > > Because nobody cared to create patch and just called systemd names? ;-) systemd documents what is needed in order for it to boot properly quite well, I don't see why this needs to be here. > > Do these files even make any sense anymore? Who uses them? The distros > > sure do not... > > Maybe I'm oldschool but I expect a defconfig kernel to be able to boot a > recent distro. You are :) How does the defconfig know your hardware in order to be able to find the root disk properly? Video device? USB keyboard? and so on... I thought we were getting rid of the defconfig files entirely one of these days, didn't some arches already do this? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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