linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make CONFIG

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:42:22 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make CONFIG_FHANDLE default y

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 05:52:52PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> >
> > Newer Fedora and OpenSUSE didn't boot with my standard configuration.
> > It took me some time to figure out why, in fact I had to write a script
> > to try different config options systematically.
> >
> > The problem is that something in dracut depends on CONFIG_FHANDLE,
> > which adds open by file handle syscalls.
> 
> s/something/systemd. :-)

Makes sense thanks. It should probably give a better error message
like it gives for missing cgroups
(right now just your root file system is missing)

But right now we should avoid others having the same pain
and make the option default.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.