Re: Feedback sought: can we drop cgroupv1 support soon?

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 11:46, Lewis Gaul <lewis.gaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> > All the distributions you quoted above support cgroupv2 to the best of
> > my knowledge, it simply has to be enabled at boot. Why isn't that
> > sufficient?
>
> As I said in my previous email:
>
> > in the case of it being a systemd container on an arbitrary host then a lack of cgroup v1 support from systemd would place a cgroup v2 requirement on the host, which is an undesirable property of a container.
>
> and
>
> > we are not in a position to require the end-user to reconfigure their host to enable running our container.

What's the problem with that? You will already have _some_
requirements, just add a new one. It's just a configuration change.