Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751546Ab2KFROs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:14:48 -0500 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:62768 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866Ab2KFROr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:14:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1352156701-4038-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> References: <1352156701-4038-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 18:14:45 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: u3X6_9pNrZ9PiBL7Ah_7jKPUq9k Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 000/104] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Kees Cook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 23 On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > For items that really are experimental, maintainers should use "default > n", optionally include "(EXPERIMENTAL)" in the title, and add language to > the help text indicating why the item should be considered experimental. "default n" is the default. Unless you have a very good reason, you should never have "default y". Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/