TMPFS in kernels

[Warner Losh]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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?

DEFAULTS isn’t the place for this.

Warner