Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options

From: Mikulas Patocka
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 11:44:33 EST




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 whenÂ
> > 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