2012-10-24 10:02:19

by Guennadi Liakhovetski

Subject: [Q] CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER doesn't get enabled upon defconfig

Hi all

CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is marked default "y" in fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig,
so, I would expect it to be enabled by any make *_defconfig. However, for
some reason, this doesn't happen (e.g. with mackerel_defconfig), which
leads to non-functional udev, among others. Any idea why this could be
happening?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
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2012-10-24 20:35:51

by Randy Dunlap

Subject: Re: [Q] CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER doesn't get enabled upon defconfig

On 10/24/2012 03:02 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hi all
>
> CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is marked default "y" in fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig,
> so, I would expect it to be enabled by any make *_defconfig. However, for
> some reason, this doesn't happen (e.g. with mackerel_defconfig), which
> leads to non-functional udev, among others. Any idea why this could be
> happening?

I think it's because arch/arm/configs/mackerel_defconfig says:

# CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is not set

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~Randy