From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756722AbeDZPoa (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:44:30 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:58634 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755709AbeDZPo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:44:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:44:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikulas Patocka X-X-Sender: mpatocka@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com To: James Bottomley cc: Michal Hocko , David Rientjes , dm-devel@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , linux-mm@kvack.org, edumazet@google.com, Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Miller , Vlastimil Babka Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options In-Reply-To: <1524756256.3226.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Message-ID: References: <20180424170349.GQ17484@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180424173836.GR17484@dhcp22.suse.cz> <1114eda5-9b1f-4db8-2090-556b4a37c532@infradead.org> <1524694663.4100.21.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180426125817.GO17484@dhcp22.suse.cz> <1524753932.3226.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1524756256.3226.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="185206533-1316700408-1524757462=:21152" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --185206533-1316700408-1524757462=:21152 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 11:05 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > [...] > > > Perhaps find out beforehand instead of insisting on an approach > > without > > > knowing.  On openSUSE the grub config is built from the files in > > > /etc/grub.d/ so any package can add a kernel option (and various > > > conditions around activating it) simply by adding a new file. > > > > And then, different versions of the debug kernel will clash when  > > attempting to create the same file. > > Don't be silly ... there are many ways of coping with that in rpm/dpkg. I know you can deal with it - but how many lines of code will that consume? Multiplied by the total number of rpm-based distros. Mikulas --185206533-1316700408-1524757462=:21152--