Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753390Ab0KBOee (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:34:34 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:36741 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713Ab0KBOe2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:34:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=iJ39wXKLwAoG4pkeS2r34nEozEcvifcP1jmvKorv75dMSomvD/ymNPqWbNr8Hrljn9 xg/6Mubn9io2i/vxzqu8QSO2bpeje1o9pt9eEM6v7rLamPsn47oXAbwfJCwIJnYqhO7t XeYa5wrC47NC9F66gR/dCg5X1OzW5e80dICYY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1288668052-32036-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:34:27 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness From: Hiroyuki Kamezawa To: Ben Gamari Cc: David Rientjes , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Wu Fengguang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 29 2010/11/2 Ben Gamari : > On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes wrote: >> And they can't use an init script to tune /proc/sys/vm/swappiness >> because...? > > Packaging concerns, as I mentioned before, > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:52:30AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: >> Ubuntu ships different kernels for desktop and server usage. From a >> packaging standpoint it would be much nicer to have this set in the >> kernel configuration. If we were to throw the setting /etc/sysctl.conf >> the kernel would depend upon the package containing sysctl(8) >> (procps). We'd rather avoid this and keep the default kernel >> configuration in one place. > > In short, being able to specify this default in .config is just far > simpler from a packaging standpoint than the alternatives. > Hmm, then, can't we add a sysctl template config/script for generic sysctl values ? Adding this kind of CONFIG one by one seems not very helpful... Thanks, -Kame -- 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/