Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 25 2014 - 18:51:15 EST


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?

And what about all of the other systemd kernel requirements, are you
ignoring them here?

> 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@xxxxxx>
> ---
> 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...

greg k-h
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