Re: [PATCH] um/configs: don't use devtmpfs in defconfig

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Why does this confuse systemd? systemd has also a dependency on devtmpfs.

See getty@.service, which is a dependency of getty.target:

  # On systems without virtual consoles, don't start any getty. (Note
  # that serial gettys are covered by serial-getty@.service, not this
  # unit
  ConditionPathExists=/dev/tty0

No, systemd does not have a hard dependency on devtmpfs.  See
src/getty-generator/getty-generator.c:

  if (detect_container(NULL) > 0) {
          log_debug("Automatically adding console shell.");

          if (add_symlink("console-getty.service", "console-getty.service") < 0)
                  r = EXIT_FAILURE;

          /* Don't add any further magic if we are in a container */
          goto finish;
  }

I can add a rule for detect_vm() and id = "uml" here, so that um Linux
runs console-getty.service out-of-the-box.  After I do that,
systemd-vconsole-setup.service will fail precisely because systemd
sees a /dev/tty0 and gets confused.
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