TMPFS in kernels

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:29:35PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 17:25 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> > > Yeah, for the kernel side of it, I'm just adding TMPFS to
> > > arm/conf/DEFAULTS since the concensus seems to be that we want it in all
> > > kernels.  I'm waiting for a universe-kernels build to finish and if it's
> > > clean I'll commit that tonight.
> > 
> > DEFAULTS was never intended for something like this.. Only for things that
> > must be mandatory or very nearly mandatory for the system to operate. While
> > useful, this isn’t mandatory by any stretch of the imagination. I strongly object
> > to putting it there, so please don’t commit it to DEFAULTS.
> 
> 
> Ooops, your email and the commit passed each other on the wires.
> 
> But... really?  An option we want in every kernel we should paste into
> 70+ files instead of into the one file that they all include?
> 

Why not include it by default, and exclude it where not needed/wanted?

Glen

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