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diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml index 7d9747aec..930e5a007 100644 --- a/chapter08/kernel.xml +++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml @@ -72,25 +72,55 @@ <para>Be sure to enable or disable following features:</para> - <screen role="nodump">General setup ---> - [*] open by fhandle syscalls - [*] Control Group support -Processor type and features ---> - [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode -Networking support ---> - Networking options ---> - <*> The IPv6 protocol + <screen role="nodump"> Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> () path to uevent helper [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev - [ ] Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading File systems ---> [*] Inotify support for userspace - <*> Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) - Pseudo filesystems ---> - [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists - [*] Tmpfs extended attributes</screen></note> + <*> 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><host_LANG_value></replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen> |