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Message-ID: <20150121145219.446d360c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:52:19 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@...il.com> Cc: serge.hallyn@...onical.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, josh@...htriplett.org, peterz@...radead.org, mhocko@...e.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: Conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:33:08 +0200 Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@...il.com> wrote: > There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their functionality > in init, running as root:root. For these systems, supporting multiple users is > not necessary. We probably shouldn't encourage such poor design ;-) The proposed patch generates a whole mass of ifdefs all over the place. If it's going to be done move all the functions in question together somewhere logical and give them a single ifdef or a file of their own. It also doesn't appear to be dropping all it should - why can't you simply not compile in groups.c for example ? If you can't then it says the patch is far from complete at this point. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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