linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] Move the user namespace under the option

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Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:54:45 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Move the user namespace under the option

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> 
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
>>> index b5f41d4..dda160c 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
>>> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ struct user_namespace {
>>>
>>>  extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NAMESPACES_EXPERIMENTAL
> 
> is it really a good precedent to introduce Kconfig variables that
> literally include the word "EXPERIMENTAL"?

How else can we call it? I proposed one config option for
each namespace with "depends on EXPERIMENTAL" dependency,
but everyone else said that two options are much better.

> rday

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