Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753313AbYHHBKn (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbYHHBKg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:10:36 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:53392 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbYHHBKf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:10:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:11:23 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: why are namespaces required? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 970 Lines: 22 On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > I am taking the time to create a minimal config for some new hardware with > 2.6.25.15 and noticed that CONFIG_NAMESPACES is forced to Yes unless embeded > is selected (at which time it becomes configurable) > > why are namespaces required? as a follow up, when enabling embedded mode, it defaults to everything enabled, including the option to 'disable heap randomization' this should be changed to 'enable heap randomization' so that it can default to on line everything else (with the assumption being that mearly checking the option to be able to select the embeded menu doesn't change the kernel behavior, you would have to disable something in that menu) David Lang -- 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/