> 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