Eric, I think you and just about everyone here are on a different page, and before we have the basic disagreement settled I'm not sure we can make much progress. Can you please explain why a feature like IMA that no sane user would ever want should cause _any_ overhead for users that just have it compiled in because their distro or defconfig did without actually using. What exactly is the problem to require the few people that want it to use a kernel command line option and/or an _DEFAULT_ON config option? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html