Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:29:23 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:50:42PM -0000, 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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> CC: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> 
> ---
> 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 cherry-picked the hwmon/pmbus patch (commit 41c5b6bb).

Guenter
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