On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:36:09 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think I disagree with this. __If the person compiling the kernel > > includes the feature in his kernel via the time-honoured process of > > "wtf is that thing? __Yeah, whatev", it gets turned on by default. __This > > could easily result in weird failures which would take a *long* time > > for an unsuspecting person to debug. > > > > Would it not be kinder to our users to start this out as > > turned-off-at-runtime unless the kernel configurer has deliberately > > gone in and enabled it? > > There was a fair bit of back-and-forth discussion about it. > Originally, I had it disabled, but, IIRC, Ingo urged me to have it be > the default. I can sent a patch to disable it if you want. What is the reasoning behind the current setting? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
