Re: [PATCH][Resend] Let SYSVIPC default to 'y'

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 16:40:32 EST


2008/4/27 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:11:03 +0200 (CEST)
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [This patch was previously submitted on 24 April 2008 01:01]
>
> And people responded pointed out that entire distributions were running
> with SYS5 IPC off and no ill effects so why is it stil being resubmitted ?
>

Well, because in my experience there are many programs out there that
do not run fine with this off, and I believe that our defaults should
try to be a kernel that works well for as much software as possible
out there.
The overhead of including this is fairly low. Thare are apps out there
that require it. It's just a default for the kernel.org kernel,
distros can still set whatever they please.
But OK, I'll leave it at this and not resubmit it again if it doesn't
get merged, I don't feel that strongly about it.


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