Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > There were some questions like "do I need this on my cellphone" > in reply to different namespaces patches. Indeed, the namespaces > are not useful for most of the embedded systems, but the code > creating and releasing them weights a lot. > > So I propose to add a config option which will help embedded > people to reduce the vmlinux size. This option simply compiles > out the namespaces cloning and releasing code *only*, but keeps > all the other logic untouched (e.g. the notion of init_ns). > > When someone tries to clone some namespace with their support > turned off, he will receive an EINVAL error. > > This patchset can save more than 2KB from the vmlinux when > turning the config option "NAMESPACES" to "n". > > I do not introduce the NAMESPACES_EXPERIMENTAL config option, that > switches all the namespaces we consider experimental, but each > namespace has its own config that can be mrked with "depends on > EXPERIMENTAL" on demand. > > This is mainly done because some people consider pid namespaces broken > ant will probably want to make them depend on BROKEN. In this case > we'll have to introduce the NAMESPACES_BROKEN option which is not that > good. I think the discussion finished with an 'immature' status :) > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> I'm fine with all these patches and I have a bunch of patches that depend on them already. The sooner they get in the better. Thanks Pavel ! C. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
