[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Document CONFIG_NET_NS as a required kernel option

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 09.04.14 11:21, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Several units now utilize the PrivateNetwork parameter, which requires
> > network namespace support.

BTW, this really sounds like something where we should have graceful
degradation: if network namespaces are missing we should probably simply
ignore PrivateNetwork= (maybe print a one-time warning to syslog, just
to mentioned this), and proceed without them. After all this is a
feature that just takes away features, and doesn't add any, thus simply
ignoring it should be safe.

I'd be happy to merge a patch which implements such a scheme to support
kernels with a more limited feature set.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat