Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default [LWN.net]

From:		Alan Cox <alan-AT-lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:		Greg KH <greg-AT-kroah.com>
Subject:		Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default
Date:		Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:57:22 +0000
Cc:		Arjan van de Ven <arjan-AT-infradead.org>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers-AT-vrfy.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

> Why?  All major distros need this at boot time, and as we have been

No they don't.

Centos doesn't (in fact I suspect it'll break)
Fedora 11 doesn't
Fedora 12 doesn't seem to (but seems to be willing to use it)
Ditto all the older SuSE, Ubuntu etc releases that are *still*
active/supported/maintained


> through a release cycle with the config option, anyone who is
> incrementally updating will continue with their existing value.  But new
> people coming in, will get the option as it is most likely required to
> boot properly.
> 
> Makes sense to me.

That may well be true - in which case it needs to be very clearly
documented when to enable it.

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