On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:35:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:55:26PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On 06/24/2014 11:33 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:30:05AM -0700, Michael Marineau wrote: > > >> On Jun 24, 2014 11:23 AM, "Alan Stern" <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote: > > >>> [ snipping most of this ] > (i.) I got the option with 'make oldconfig' and, after reading the > help, made a decision. But, in the absence of other problems, and > if the help text is correct, it looks as if a kernel built after > accepting the default 'Y' here with recent userspace might grind to > a halt after "successfully" booting? That sounds slightly better > than "fails to boot", but only slightly. Maybe the problem needs > a lot of modules, or is it something like "it will hang for a minute, > then boot" ? > > (ii.) I understand that people continue to use ancient userspace, > and for that the 'Y' option is needed. Using ancient userspace is > a worthwhile thing for _somebody_ to try. But where is the line > between "you need to enable this" and "enabling this might be a > really bad idea" ? Maybe a specific version of udev ? > Now that I have managed to boot -rc3, with the default 'Y' on a recent system (linuxfromscratch from May), it appears to work fine.
So, the text implies that bad things might happen, but so far I have not seen them. I'll stop caring. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- 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/