linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

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Message-ID: <20090129181014.GO2469@anguilla.noreply.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:10:14 +0100
From:	Peter Palfrader <weasel@...ian.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adam Tkac <vonsch@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	debian-admin@...ts.debian.org, team@...urity.debian.org,
	libpam-modules@...kages.debian.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Sure, debian might well be wrong.  But the bottom line is that the
> kernel changed, and people's machines broke.
> 
> If the kernel change was really really important then we might just
> grit our teeth and live with the breakage.  But this change _wasn't_ a
> terribly important one.  So I think we should back it out while we find
> another way of implementing it which does not break currently deployed
> installations.

FWIWs, if Debian stable (4.0) is really the only place that breaks with
this then re-introducing it in a couple of months when the new version
of Debian (5.0) has been out for a while might well be an option.

Peter
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