From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70C313861D for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66B5E21C058; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FEF21C036 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F27A80041 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:05 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers Message-ID: <20130123090505.6bae09af@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <50FF9F5F.90204@hanft.de> References: <20130120085143.GA1059@ca.inter.net> <201301201657.59592.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20130122204114.6366c661@fuchsia.remarqs.net> <50FF9F5F.90204@hanft.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0cvs57 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Fe11=JjGhVi.WnZRSmR+lqD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 32d61b7c-2ec8-4aab-b5db-3970abbd8b42 X-Archives-Hash: 50c1eef92d4f3d5154e5a2a2a74e99c8 --Sig_/Fe11=JjGhVi.WnZRSmR+lqD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:29:19 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > This got me too. Now there's a discussion in -dev about making config > > warnings fatal. =20 >=20 > Good idea, but as I updated udev yesterday on one of my Gentoo systems, > in the usual after-update messages there was a line in red, telling me > "You don't have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS enabled. udev will not start." So it's > not really a surprise, is it? Hence, I built a new kernel *before* > rebooting :-) That's fine if you see the message, which you should, and the system does not suffer an unplanned reboot, which it shouldn't. But leaving a system in a state that won't reboot following a crash or power failure is not particularly clever, making the warnings fatal sounds a safe default to me. As this is Gentoo there will always be a way to turn the airbags off and even disable the brakes :) --=20 Neil Bothwick Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. --Sig_/Fe11=JjGhVi.WnZRSmR+lqD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlD/p8EACgkQum4al0N1GQPRvACglmq6l7diqBoGVonKlJTiBg0H 1JUAn0Fd7hbkrvRvLa6ZVYXfBzKOEhmS =L7Mf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Fe11=JjGhVi.WnZRSmR+lqD--