Commit-ID: 01d8f8be099250685e9215d9b6daea651738c909 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/01d8f8be099250685e9215d9b6daea651738c909 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:40:21 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:44:35 +0200 fs/Kconfig: Add help text about CONFIG_FHANDLE So I spent an hour debugging a non-booting kernel, to discover that Fedora Linux will not boot if CONFIG_FHANDLE is disabled. It will hang indefinitely in: [ *] A start job is running for dev-sda1.device (20h 21min / no limit) Add this tidbit to the Kconfig help text, as the existing text only talks about file servers. Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- init/Kconfig | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ba1e6ea..1a48e9e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -283,6 +283,9 @@ config FHANDLE get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) syscalls. + Some distributions (such as Fedora) will not boot without this + system call, so if unsure, say Y. + config USELIB bool "uselib syscall" default y -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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