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

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
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

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> 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.

i don't know -- perhaps something as trivially obvious as
NAMESPACES_V2 or something.  i just think it's awkward to take a word
like "EXPERIMENTAL" that already has a long and established history,
and start jamming it into config variable names.  but it's just an
observation.

rday
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