Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:51:08 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
        rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE
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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@nod.at>
> ---
>  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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