Quoting Pavel Emelyanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Change against v3: rebased on 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 > > There were some questions like "do I need this on my cellphone" > in reply to different namespaces patches. Indeed, the namespaces > are not useful for most of the embedded systems, but the code > creating and releasing them weights a lot. > > So I propose to add a config option which will help embedded > people to reduce the vmlinux size. This option simply compiles > out the namespaces cloning and releasing code *only*, but keeps > all the other logic untouched (e.g. the notion of init_ns). > > Moreover, some of the namespaces might be not 100% ready by > the time of Linux-2.6.xxx release (like user namespaces or pid > namespaces are now). Since each namespace has its own option, > which depends on the NAMESPACES, it can be mrked with "depends > on EXPERIMENTAL/BROKEN/ANYTHING_ELSE" not to release the > functionality that is not 100% ready yet. > > When someone tries to clone some namespace with their support > turned off, he will receive an EINVAL error. > > This patchset can save more than 2KB from the vmlinux when > turning the config option "NAMESPACES" to "n". > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pretty sure I did this a few versions ago, but Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the whole set. thanks, -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/