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Message-ID: <20100115205722.3580b6bf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:57:22 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by
default
> Why? All major distros need this at boot time, and as we have been
No they don't.
Centos doesn't (in fact I suspect it'll break)
Fedora 11 doesn't
Fedora 12 doesn't seem to (but seems to be willing to use it)
Ditto all the older SuSE, Ubuntu etc releases that are *still*
active/supported/maintained
> 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.
>
> Makes sense to me.
That may well be true - in which case it needs to be very clearly
documented when to enable it.
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