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| author | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200 |
| commit | 0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch) | |
| tree | 94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /drivers/base/Kconfig | |
| parent | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff) | |
| parent | perf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 8f006f96ff53..ee377270beb9 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -8,6 +8,31 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for every uevent. +config DEVTMPFS + bool "Create a kernel maintained /dev tmpfs (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on HOTPLUG && SHMEM && TMPFS + help + This creates a tmpfs filesystem, and mounts it at bootup + and mounts it at /dev. The kernel driver core creates device + nodes for all registered devices in that filesystem. All device + nodes are owned by root and have the default mode of 0600. + Userspace can add and delete the nodes as needed. This is + intended to simplify bootup, and make it possible to delay + the initial coldplug at bootup done by udev in userspace. + It should also provide a simpler way for rescue systems + to bring up a kernel with dynamic major/minor numbers. + Meaningful symlinks, permissions and device ownership must + still be handled by userspace. + If unsure, say N here. + +config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT + bool "Automount devtmpfs at /dev" + depends on DEVTMPFS + help + This will mount devtmpfs at /dev if the kernel mounts the root + filesystem. It will not affect initramfs based mounting. + If unsure, say N here. + config STANDALONE bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" if EXPERIMENTAL default y |