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

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Message-ID: <20120723105227.28e3d792@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:52:27 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kay@...y.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable devtmpfs by default

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:54:14 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> 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.

NAK. As Linus keeps saying we shouldn't go randomly turning features on
at people.

See the discussion on having a distro configuration - that will fix this
problem properly and for good.

You need half a dozen other things enabled to make Fedora boot many of
them quite obscure LVM settings.

Alan
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