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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: turning off a default compile option
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:36:42
Message-Id: 200407061036.28504.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: turning off a default compile option by Greg KH
1 On Monday 05 July 2004 22:05, Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:33:34AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
3 > > That's not a sufficient test. Mainline 2.6 kernels have standard
4 > > Linux security capabilities broken out into their own module, now.
5 > > Thus, it can be compiled in as traditional, compiled as a module (my
6 > > configuration, with it specifically loaded at boot, since the kernel
7 > > isn't smart enough to auto-load it on its own, yet)
8 >
9 > And how would you expect such a "auto-load" system to work for the
10 > capabilities module?
11
12 In such case it needs to be a useflag and is not related to which profile
13 (and arch) is used, but on whether users have enabled it.
14
15 Paul
16
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18 Paul de Vrieze
19 Gentoo Developer
20 Mail: pauldv@g.o
21 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: turning off a default compile option Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>