A couple of rawhide surprises

[Bill Nottingham]

Jonathan Corbet (lwn-fedora-test at lwn.net) said: 
> Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Right now, if you're not using an initrd, you already have to:
> > 
> > 1) make sure your storage driver is built in (might be, in our stock kernels)
> > 2) make sure your root fs type is built in (requires your own kernel)
> > 3) make sure you have some sort of prefilled /dev created (requires your own /dev
> >    or udev)
> 
> If you're running your own mainline kernel (being a proper citizen and
> testing 2.6.16-rc3, say), the first two are fairly likely anyway.  Why
> configure a kernel which lacks the stuff you know you're going to need
> always?  Honestly, I've never thought about /dev contents - it just
> works, IF /proc and /sys are mounted.

Hm, when I did some quick testing, it blew up fairly badly due to no
console. Will have to check some more.

Bill