[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#725422: Bug#725422: Bug#725422: systemd set kernel.sysrq=16

[Goffredo Baroncelli]

Hi Zbyszek

On 2013-11-28 17:24, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:50:03AM +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>> [1] I repeat I am not arguing about the values, I am arguing that a
>> package which aim to replace the init must change a setting which aren't
>> related to the package functionality.
> Hi Goffredo,
> 
> upstream value for the sysrq setting was chosen as a safe default.
> If you thing that the default should be changed, it is definitely
> reasonable to discuss it upstream on systemd-devel at l.fd.o.

I was unable to find the discussion where these "safe default" was
decided, so I don't know the rationale behind them; this seems to me a
debate like "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill X: a lot of people have
different opinion about the meaning of "safe default". Anyway I am not
complaining about the "systemd safe values", even I have a different
opinion.

> The mechanism to set the default is unlikely to change though.
> Modulo the bugs with ordering that Michael pointed out, this
> mechanism is nice and clean, and provides a safe way for the
> administrator to locally override settings.

Let me clear: I think that *how* systemd set the sysctl values *are the
right one* (even tough they changed behaviour without regard the
backward compatibility)

> Also, this is a basic system setting, where it makes sense to change
> the kernel default by default, so it is natural that systemd
> does that. The goal of the systemd project is to take care of the
> basic system setup.

This is the point where we have a totally different opinion:
- is job of systemd to set the sysctl values ? Yes.
- is job of systemd decide *which values* have to be set ? IMHO no. This
is a distribution responsibility. And I think that a distribution should
not accept the systemd defaults, but should provide the own ones.

> Zbyszek

BR
Goffredo


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