On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 11:03 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Eric Paris wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 11:28 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > >> Hi Eric, > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:58:38AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote: > >>> Would anyone have a problem carrying this patch in fedora? This would > >>> be a forever fedora'ism. > >>> > >> Wouldn't it be better to just use sysctl in an init script to turn it on > >> during boot (or, optionally, not.) as opposed to carrying a patch > >> perpetually? > > > > I actually talked to the sysctl.conf owner first who said "if it is a > > good default for everyone turn it on in the kernel" > > > > which i tended to agree with. But I like Eric's way of enabling it > > better, especially since now every distro will have to choose to > > enable/disable rather than just having it ignorable. > > Having a sysctl to change it post-boot if desired may also still make > sense, though? I guess it's sort of analogous to how selinux can be > KConfig'd in certain ways, and later modified runtime. Absolutely the sysctl is always going to be there (it already is /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr). -Eric _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
