On Mon, 22 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > very much so. Especially for security it's really bad if a feature is > default-off. I'm quite strongly against such an approach. It's not bad at all. It's default-off FOR THE KERNEL. Make Fedora updates (and RHEL) just turn it on in the rc scripts. So that it's default ON for those, WHEN IT WORKS. > is it really a big problem to add "vdso=0" to the long list of > requirements you need to run a 2.6 kernel on an old distribution (or to > disable CONFIG_VDSO)? FC1 wasnt even 2.6-ready, it used a 2.4 kernel! Backwards compatibility is absolutely paramount. Much more important than just about anything else. Linus
