Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932639Ab2JCQPi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:15:38 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:65440 "EHLO mail-ia0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756501Ab2JCQPg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:15:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:15:35 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: LNEtfOMn5QbtD4pW6bZRCCEFi70 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default From: Kees Cook To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker , Greg Kroah-Hartman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2064 Lines: 48 On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:50:42PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is >> almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel >> summit, it should be removed. As a first step, remove it from being >> listed, and default it to on. Once it has been removed from all >> subsystem Kconfigs, it will be dropped entirely. >> >> CC: Greg KH >> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" >> CC: Serge Hallyn >> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" >> CC: Andrew Morton >> CC: Frederic Weisbecker >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook >> --- >> >> This is the first of a series of 202 patches removing EXPERIMENTAL from >> all the Kconfigs in the tree. Should I send them all to lkml (with all >> the associated CCs), or do people want to cherry-pick changes from my >> tree? I don't want to needlessly flood the list. >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/experimental >> >> I figure this patch can stand alone to at least make EXPERIMENTAL go >> away from the menus, and give us a taste of what the removal would do >> to builds. > > OK, I will bite... How should I flag an option that is initially only > intended for those willing to take some level of risk? I'm not sure I understand what you mean? The intention of removing EXPERIMENTAL is effectively like turning it on everywhere, so this first patch does that. As we go forward we can remove the its redundant use in all the Kconfigs, until it is finally removed for real. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- 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/