Changeset 4e7d6a6 for chapter08

Timestamp:

05/11/2014 12:58:48 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

799daaa

Parents:

b3eb525

Message:

Add explanations for kernel options in Section 8.3. Simplified the options due
to removal of systemd.

Add a sed to ksyslogd to prevent errors in some circumstances.
Update to man-pages-3.66.
Update to linux-3.14.3.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10558 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter08/kernel.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/kernel.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
     <para>Be sure to enable or disable following features:</para>
 
-        <screen role="nodump">General setup  ---&gt;
-  [*] open by fhandle syscalls
-  [*] Control Group support
-Processor type and features  ---&gt;
-  [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode
-Networking support  ---&gt;
-  Networking options  ---&gt;
-    &lt;*&gt; The IPv6 protocol
+        <screen role="nodump">
 Device Drivers  ---&gt;
   Generic Driver Options  ---&gt;
     ()  path to uevent helper
     [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
-    [ ] Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading
 File systems  ---&gt;
   [*] Inotify support for userspace
-  &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
-  Pseudo filesystems  ---&gt;
-    [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists
-    [*] Tmpfs extended attributes</screen></note>
+  &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)</screen></note>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The rationale for the above configuration items:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>path to uevent helper</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Having an entry in this space will interfere with device
+          management when using udev/eudev. </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Maintain a devtmpfs</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This will create automated device nodes which are populated by the
+          kernel, even without udev running.  Udev then runs on top of this,
+          managing permissions and adding symlinks.  This configuration
+          itme is required for all users of udev/eudev. </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Inotify support</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This allows monitoring of both files and directories via a single
+          open file descriptor.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Kernel automounter version 4 support</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This allows Desktop
+          Environments to automatically mount usb sticks and similar, this is
+          needed to work around a bug with network filesystems which are to be
+          mounted on boot.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make LANG=<replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen>