From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:55:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141126005542.GA14758@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54751A95.60805@nod.at>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-25 23:36 [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE Richard Weinberger
2014-11-25 23:43 ` Dave Jones
2014-11-26 0:11 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 9:43 ` Paul Bolle
2014-11-25 23:51 ` Greg KH
2014-11-26 0:11 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 0:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-11-26 8:13 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 9:30 ` Paul Bolle
2014-11-30 20:54 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-30 21:08 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-01 0:18 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-01 0:41 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-01 1:03 ` Lennart Poettering
2014-12-01 3:54 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-01 12:42 ` Lennart Poettering
2014-12-09 10:18 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/kconfig/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE=y tip-bot for Richard Weinberger
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