Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755016Ab0KDCk6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:40:58 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:49037 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753824Ab0KDCk4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:40:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; b=wRhtu/idS7a/G4yn30+41tllipE5iCsFZBfLxVr1V94bWgQZdv5axc0qMuK/6740pA rx/9mPxdoXaEALLUvvpbL2D1vBZQpJzbn3n+wAc8ZYvuW95vuh9v3Wc/vW17wSigTLjx E8BNnb+udtOaJAobTatbydgfs/8QJjRch9LOA= From: Ben Gamari To: Dave Jones , Wu Fengguang Cc: David Rientjes , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-mm\@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Jesper Juhl Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness In-Reply-To: <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com> References: <1288668052-32036-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> <20101102140119.GA8294@localhost> <20101103143358.GA19777@redhat.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1-158-g04cd99c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbfxbykr.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 24 On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take > the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely > continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us > for things like this is moot. > Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise. > Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our > default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs > that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions > the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default, > why isn't the kernel setting it? > This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy. - Ben -- 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/