[PATCH][Resend] Let SYSVIPC default to 'y'

[PATCH][Resend] Let SYSVIPC default to 'y'

[Jesper Juhl]

From: Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

[This patch was previously submitted on  24 April 2008 01:01]

Andrew; Will you take this in -mm or should I just queue it in Trivial (or 
drop it entirely)?


SYSVIPC is a pretty crucial feature that I doubt very much if anyone 
except embedded people should even consider disabling - it simply 
breaks too much software for a Linux box to really be useful without it, 
for most purposes.
For that reason I find it quite odd that the feature defaults to 'No' 
currently.  I really cannot see any reason why we wouldn't want this to 
default to 'Yes', so this patch changes the default by adding 'default y' 
to Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 Kconfig |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index ba3a389..023b2b6 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ config SWAP
 
 config SYSVIPC
 	bool "System V IPC"
+	default y
 	---help---
 	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
 	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and

Re: [PATCH][Resend] Let SYSVIPC default to 'y'

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:11:03 +0200 (CEST)
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> 
> [This patch was previously submitted on  24 April 2008 01:01]

And people responded pointed out that entire distributions were running
with SYS5 IPC off and no ill effects so why is it stil being resubmitted ?

Alan

Re: [PATCH][Resend] Let SYSVIPC default to 'y'

[Jesper Juhl]

2008/4/27 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:11:03 +0200 (CEST)
>  Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > From: Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
>  >
>  > [This patch was previously submitted on  24 April 2008 01:01]
>
>  And people responded pointed out that entire distributions were running
>  with SYS5 IPC off and no ill effects so why is it stil being resubmitted ?
>

Well, because in my experience there are many programs out there that
do not run fine with this off, and I believe that our defaults should
try to be a kernel that works well for as much software as possible
out there.
The overhead of including this is fairly low. Thare are apps out there
that require it. It's just a default for the kernel.org kernel,
distros can still set whatever they please.
But OK, I'll leave it at this and not resubmit it again if it doesn't
get merged, I don't feel that strongly about it.


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