Re: [PATCH] make cr depend on all namespaces

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Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> 
> 
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > This should let us get rid of some ifdefed code and reduce
> > chances for bad config combinations.  There's really no reason
> > to support it.
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> You are right that this will reduce the changes of bad config
> combinations.
> 
> However, it will also introduce some restrictions on the kernel
> config which are unnecessary. Some people may not want to have
> all namespaces configured.

Why?  The only reason right now to disable namespaces is for
kernel size.

> Note that the namespaces are independent in the sense that we
> don't need to test all combination of all namespaces - instead,
> I consider turning on/off one at a time to be safe enough.

And do you do that?  :)  It still gets more complicated bc
you have things like sysvipc and posix mq which both can allow
ipc_ns.

> (FWIW, is it because you only wanted to show a point that you
> only remove UTS_NS ifdefs ?)

It was just right there in my face...

Anyway if you don't take this patch then the UTS_NS code I
removed should have 'name' put under ifdef to avoid a build
warning.

-serge
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