From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763627AbZEAXDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:03:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752498AbZEAXDc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:03:32 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59271 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751907AbZEAXDb (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:03:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:56:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Randy Dunlap , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for May 1 (devtmpfs) Message-ID: <20090501225616.GA18064@kroah.com> References: <20090501163405.973f9088.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <49FB1521.5050500@oracle.com> <20090501165551.GA1889@puku.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090501165551.GA1889@puku.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:55:52AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:28:33AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > drivers/base/devtmpfs.c:41: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfs_mkdir' > > drivers/base/devtmpfs.c:46: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > > [...] > > Why is devtmpfs in linux-next? My read of the thread so far seems to > indicate there is considerable uncertainty that this is necessary or > desirable. As we discussed on irc, I think you no longer object to this, and see how it solves a real problem, and can probably help out your initramfs tools. So it should stay in -next for now, and see if any build/use problems happen with it. I've been running it all this week on my machines just fine. thanks, greg k-h