[Gta04-owner] 3.16-rc5

[Neil Jerram]

On 2014-07-16 12:26, Benjamin Deering wrote:
> On 07/16/2014 04:50 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 16.07.2014 um 02:51 schrieb Benjamin Deering:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I spent  a little time with the new kernel today.
>> Great!
>> 
>>>   I noticed an error message (can't find the exact text now) that 
>>> complained about the lack of control groups and delayed booting for 
>>> 10 seconds.
>> Ok.
>> 
>> Well, our ALSA extensions (headset jack etc.) are broken. Therefore I 
>> have patches some driver to return -EINVAL. This makes amixer 
>> initialisation fail during boot.
>> 
>>> If this isn't some SHR specific thing, I can send a patch to the 
>>> config enabling them.
>> Yes, please check.
> I rebuilt again without control groups. Here is the message:
> <28>systemd[1]: CONFIG_CGROUPS was not set when your kernel was 
> compiled.
> Systems without control groups are not supported. We will now sleep for
> 10s, and then continue boot-up. Expect breakage and please do not file
> bugs. Instead fix your kernel and enable CONFIG_CGROUPS. Consult
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/cgroups-vs-cgroups.html for more
> information.
> <28>systemd[1]: No control group support available, not creating root
> group.
> 
> So it is systemd specific. I know debian is switching to systemd at
> some point. Should I send the (very small) patch?

They have already switched (in "jessie" aka "testing").  So I'd support 
CONFIG_CGROUPS being enabled in GTA04 kernel builds from now on.

      Neil