On 2012-01-23 07:49:19 (-0800), Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:45:53PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 23/01/12 12:26, Greg KH wrote:
(hint, some legacy binaries and other wierd programs can't handle it.)
Yes, I already read that, how old are those binaries though ?
Some are quite old, some are newer just built with older tool chains. And others are brand new, yet do foolish things with the stack and the like.
btw I do not expect upstream kernel to change the default, but just changing the value for openSUSE kernels using sysctl...
And again, breaking people's systems that have been running fine for years? That's a big risk that I don't think you want to take...
In any case, Ludwig, and anyone else involved, please don't take this lightly. It's a change that can potentially affect a lot of users and break their system by nuking some of their favourite applications. This is the kind of change that makes a possibly non negligible amount of people stop using openSUSE, because to them, openSUSE/SUSE has always been about quality and robustness (whether that is the main goal and purpose is another question, it's always a set of different things to everyone). I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, just that it really needs consideration whether it's worth it or not. A (paraphrasing) "ok let's do it, file a bug and done" in a post in an unrelated thread on factory@ is.. um... ;) And if it's done, please not just a well-hidden post on the factory mailing-list, this would need to be broadcasted appropriately and widely, so people actually get a chance of thinking of this possibility when stuff stops working :) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf