Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262681AbVA0SSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:18:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262684AbVA0SSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:18:48 -0500 Received: from gprs213-93.eurotel.cz ([160.218.213.93]:8576 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262681AbVA0SSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:18:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:16:08 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl Message-ID: <20050127181525.GA4784@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050127101117.GA9760@infradead.org> <20050127101201.GB9760@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050127101201.GB9760@infradead.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 19 Hi! > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > down), the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally. Well, for distribution vendors, seeing "these reports from users are same error" will becoe harder, too, and sysctl can not help there :-(. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/