Am 26.11.2014 um 01:55 schrieb Greg KH: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> 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? ;-) > > systemd documents what is needed in order for it to boot properly quite > well, I don't see why this needs to be here.
Because not every kernel developer knows the contents of the damn systemd readme file. Face it, systemd is common userspace and if a defconfig is unable to boot common userspace we have a problem. Yesterday I was hunting down a regression in libvirt on the shiny new openSUSE 13.2, I had to build an older kernel. So I did a defconfig because I know that config has all drivers for my KVM setup. (No, I my laptop don't has to power to build the bloated .config from suse) But systemd went nuts (in terms of doing completely crap things beside of not spawning a getty). After one hour of painful systemd debugging I found out that I was missing CONFIG_FHANDLE. I really don't understand why you are so opposed to that change. Let's make thing easier for us. >>> 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. > > You are :) > How does the defconfig know your hardware in order to be able to find > the root disk properly? Video device? USB keyboard? and so on... > > I thought we were getting rid of the defconfig files entirely one of > these days, didn't some arches already do this? Please don't. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
