From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:49:14 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: Don't enable DEVTMPFS support for kernels older than 3.x. In-Reply-To: (rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:45:18 -0500") References: <1397849296-5517-1-git-send-email-rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com> <20140418213924.6d5a3ebf@skate> <53564749.5060409@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <87bnvr2ped.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "rjbarnet" == rjbarnet writes: Hi, > We recently ran into a issue where brought a board forward to use Buildroot > 2014.02 that we kept at a kernel version of 2.6.33. Yes, I agree that we should > be using a new kernel but the work to port to a newer version is too great but > we needed to upgrade some package versions. The system was unable to boot > because DEVTMPFS_MOUNT was enabled in kernel config. We traced the issue back > to Buildroot automatically enabling these options in our kernel config. There > was no way to not include this kernel config option when > BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC is enabled. Huh, but we ONLY enable it if BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC isn't enabled - So why not just enabled it? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard