On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote: > [ sorry, a lot to quote ] > > What upstream do you plan to report bugs when user possibly mixes > all of it in one mess? Each of those is known to be unstable. The mix > is just a disaster. > > Is gentoo's kernel team able to resolve user's OOpsen? > >> ### ... and configuration. ### >> >> This problem is not only visible for patches, but also in the config. > > Insane :] > >> Meet CONFIG_DEVTMPFS; forget to enable it, greet a failing boot. We're >> telling users to enable it in some places, in the handbook it's a single >> line you must read, on the Wiki it's kind of missing unless you are >> luckily on the right page, on the Quick Install book it is missing too. > > Forbid users install udev to ROOT=/ if running kernel does not support > devtmpfs > (easy to check by /proc/filesystems)
No. As explained multiple times, this check is not reliable and doesn't work (chroot, binpkgs, containers without kernel, and so on...). Making sure that the user doesn't build an unbootable kernel is the way to go. > > -- > > Sergei -- Fabio Erculiani
