Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756364Ab2JCVbe (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:31:34 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:48756 "EHLO mail-qa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754984Ab2JCVbc (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:31:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:31:28 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Kees Cook Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default Message-ID: <20121003213117.GD637@somewhere> References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121003161702.GA22008@kroah.com> <20121003164712.GF2527@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 20 On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:43:32AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > I would expect a simple addition of "this is dangerous/buggy" to the > description and "default n" is likely the way to go for that kind of > thing. Agreed. > I think the history of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has proven there > isn't a sensible way to create a global flag for this kind of thing. > To paraphrase Serge: my experimental options are not your experimental > options. > For example, some of the things that already had the experimental > config removed, they left the "(EXPERIMENTAL)" in their config title. Right. -- 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/