[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: Don't enable DEVTMPFS support for kernels older than 3.x.

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Apr 24 06:49:14 UTC 2014


>>>>> "rjbarnet" == rjbarnet  <rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com> writes:

Hi,

 > We recently ran into a issue where brought a board forward to use Buildroot
 > 2014.02 that we kept at a kernel version of 2.6.33. Yes, I agree that we should
 > be using a new kernel but the work to port to a newer version is too great but
 > we needed to upgrade some package versions. The system was unable to boot
 > because DEVTMPFS_MOUNT was enabled in kernel config. We traced the issue back
 > to Buildroot automatically enabling these options in our kernel config. There
 > was no way to not include this kernel config option when
 > BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC is enabled.

Huh, but we ONLY enable it if BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC isn't
enabled - So why not just enabled it?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard 


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