Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode

One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13T15:11:44Z

> It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change
> the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override
> the default via Kconfig.
>
> +choice
> + prompt "Overcommit Mode"
> + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
> + depends on EXPERT

Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value
set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like
sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf

We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets
silly.

Alan