[systemd-devel] systemd-213 fails to compile without kmod, no way to fix it using ./configure options

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 01.06.14 06:23, Kay Sievers (kay at vrfy.org) wrote:

> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
> <crrodriguez at opensuse.org> wrote:
> > El 31/05/14 13:00, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> >> A proper git formatted patch for inclusion.
> >
> > IN my opinion, we should just make KMOD a mandatory dependency, drop all
> > ifdefs, error out if not found.
> 
> Sound fine to me, it really is a core functionality with very little overhead.
> 
> The same rule as for other things: if people want to optimize-out
> basic functionality we should not make it harder than needed, but we
> should also not go crazy trying to support that with upstream options.
> 
> That means: git-is-your-friend for weird porting or supporting exotic features.

I'd acttually side with Samuli here... I mean, if you build some
embedded router or so, then you should use a kernel with everything
needed compiled in, hence no need for kmod in userspace...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat