From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:11:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54751A95.60805@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141125235108.GB3138@kroah.com>
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? ;-)
> And what about all of the other systemd kernel requirements, are you
> ignoring them here?
No, they are already enabled in x86 defconfig.
>> If you run systemd with CONFIG_FHANDLE=n it will somehow
>> boot but fail to spawn a getty or other basic services.
>> As systemd is now used by most x86 distributions it
>> makes sense to enabled this by default and save kernel
>> hackers a lot of value debugging time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig | 1 +
>> arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 1 +
>
> 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.
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 0:11 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 [this message]
2014-11-26 0:55 ` Greg KH
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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