Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

[Peter Palfrader]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Sure, debian might well be wrong.  But the bottom line is that the
> kernel changed, and people's machines broke.
> 
> If the kernel change was really really important then we might just
> grit our teeth and live with the breakage.  But this change _wasn't_ a
> terribly important one.  So I think we should back it out while we find
> another way of implementing it which does not break currently deployed
> installations.

FWIWs, if Debian stable (4.0) is really the only place that breaks with
this then re-introducing it in a couple of months when the new version
of Debian (5.0) has been out for a while might well be an option.

Peter
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