From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:41:13 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: Don't enable DEVTMPFS support for kernels older than 3.x. In-Reply-To: <20140418213924.6d5a3ebf@skate> References: <1397849296-5517-1-git-send-email-rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com> <20140418213924.6d5a3ebf@skate> Message-ID: <53564749.5060409@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Ryan, Thomas, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Ryan Barnett, > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:28:16 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote: >> From: Matt Poduska >> >> In the case where DEVTMPFS is desired for older kernels where the >> support is experimental, it's still possible to enable the option in >> the board's specific linux .config instead of relying on buildroot to >> make the modification. >> >> Signed-off-by: Matt Poduska >> Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett >> --- >> linux/linux.mk | 8 +++++--- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > Which problem is this fixing? I remember having used devtmpfs prior to > 3.x, and it was working well. For versions prior to 2.6.32, the And in fact I have targets here that are stuck on 2.6.37, they happily use devtmpfs and it works just fine. So I NACK this change, or if there's a strong motivation to apply it I would at least conceive a backward-compatibility path. -- Luca