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Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage



On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:56:18AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 02:02:11PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > My vote is to keep compat code, add ptyfs to all install kernels, and
> > try mounting ptyfs from sysinst before openpty.
> 
> No, you should not randomly add the expensive ptyfs code to INSTALL kernels
> you can not test yourself. Everything else above is fine, as long as sysinst
> is silent on ptyfs failure when the compat ipty nodes are available.

Huh? I fully agree with Christos that we *should* move to ptyfs. As
such, problems mounting it should *not* be silent.

Joerg


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