Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935548Ab2JXUfv (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:35:51 -0400 Received: from oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:33534 "HELO oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S934209Ab2JXUft (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:35:49 -0400 Message-ID: <5088510B.7010400@xenotime.net> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:35:23 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guennadi Liakhovetski CC: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Love , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Q] CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER doesn't get enabled upon defconfig References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 21 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 -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/