Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754140Ab0AWBG6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:06:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753927Ab0AWBG6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:06:58 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60344 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753914Ab0AWBG5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:06:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4B5A4B44.3010002@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:05:08 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , =?UTF-8?B?T3phbiDDh2HEn2xheWFu?= , Yinghai Lu , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, stable@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: RFC: deprecate CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG and schedule it for rapid removal References: <4B4E1633.8010700@pardus.org.tr> <201001162312.34189.rjw@sisk.pl> <4B52D6E2.8000904@pardus.org.tr> <201001171444.14551.rjw@sisk.pl> <4B53B8DD.9000809@zytor.com> <20100122165356.55cf88aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100122165356.55cf88aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 25 On 01/22/2010 04:53 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Would it not be better to fix that problem (perhaps just with the > revert) so that 2.6.33, 2.6.32.x and earlier can be fixed? Then we can > nuke the feature in 2.6.34. > > Alternatively, we can nuke the feature from 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.x and > earlier right now. Where "nuke" might mean "make it difficult to > enable". > > Whatever. Bottom line is that it'd be nice to do something to fix up > 2.6.33 and earlier. > I would be all for nuking the feature immediately. The easiest way to nuke the feature quickly is to make it a noninteractive Kconfig feature. All in favor? -hpa -- 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/