Re: 2.5.1-pre5 not easy to boot with devfs

Alexander Viro
2001-12-02T17:00:05Z

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Pierre Rousselet wrote:

> Here is the final (i hope) verdict of my devfs testbox :
>
> 2.4.16 with devfsd-1.3.18/1.3.20 : OK
> 2.4.17-pre1 " : Broken
> 2.5.1-pre1 " : OK
> 2.5.1-pre2 with or without v200 : Broken
> 2.5.1-pre5 " : Broken

IOW, merge of new devfs code (2.4.17-pre1 in -STABLE, 2.5.1-pre2 in -CURRENT).

We really need CONFIG_DEBUG_* forced if CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is set. Otherwise
we'll be getting tons of bug reports due to silent memory corruption.

Keith, is there a decent way to do that? For 2.4.17 it would help a lot...