linux-kernel - Re: [Q] CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER doesn't get enabled upon defconfig

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:35:23 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
CC:	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Love <rlove@...ve.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER doesn't get enabled upon defconfig

On 10/24/2012 03:02 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is marked default "y" in fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig, 
> so, I would expect it to be enabled by any make *_defconfig. However, for 
> some reason, this doesn't happen (e.g. with mackerel_defconfig), which 
> leads to non-functional udev, among others. Any idea why this could be 
> happening?

I think it's because arch/arm/configs/mackerel_defconfig says:

# CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is not set

-- 
~Randy
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