4KSTACKS again

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 13 19:46:45 UTC 2004


Ben Steeves said:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:24, William Hooper wrote:
>> >
>> > I think it would be nice that, in the future, if these sort of options
>> > are being mainlined, that the Fedora kernels should retain them as
>> > options (enabled/disabled as appropriate for their future status)
>> until
>> > such time as they do become mainlined.  It would prevent this kind of
>> > unnecessary angst.
>>
>> And testing code that Fedora has no intention to ship helps how?
>
> The supplied kernel *wouldn't* be testing it (re-read the part above in
> parenthesis).  But it also wouldn't freeze out people who *need* the
> options to use their machines.

The option is going away upstream.  It's either "freeze out" now or later.
 If they *need* this option, why are they running a test release?

> I should think that a kernel with the
> 4KSTACKS option turned off but built from the Fedora kernel package
> would be a more valid test kernel (even if it's not a supplied kernel)
> than one built directly from the stock kernel source

I don't think either is a valid test.

> (which is what
> people need to do now to get past the unnecessary and artificial
> limitation imposed by the Fedora kernel team).

Dave's point is that it isn't an artificial limitation and it will be
going away from the mainline kernel in the near future.

>> If it is going away in the mainline it doesn't make much sense to be
>> doing
>> testing on it.  This is the same reason SELinux is turned on by default,
>> so it gets tested.
>
> I'm not arguing that.  I'm just saying it's more friendly to the
> end-users to supply the option.

Test releases are about developers, not end-users.

-- 
William Hooper





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