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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: TomWij@g.o, gentoo-kernel@l.g.o, kernel@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:38:57
Message-Id: 20130702103634.0e70b9f8@sf
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration. by Tom Wijsman
1 [ sorry, a lot to quote ]
2
3 What upstream do you plan to report bugs when user possibly mixes
4 all of it in one mess? Each of those is known to be unstable. The mix
5 is just a disaster.
6
7 Is gentoo's kernel team able to resolve user's OOpsen?
8
9 > ### ... and configuration. ###
10 >
11 > This problem is not only visible for patches, but also in the config.
12
13 Insane :]
14
15 > Meet CONFIG_DEVTMPFS; forget to enable it, greet a failing boot. We're
16 > telling users to enable it in some places, in the handbook it's a single
17 > line you must read, on the Wiki it's kind of missing unless you are
18 > luckily on the right page, on the Quick Install book it is missing too.
19
20 Forbid users install udev to ROOT=/ if running kernel does not support devtmpfs
21 (easy to check by /proc/filesystems)
22
23 --
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25 Sergei

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