Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932864Ab2JCXdW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:33:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:39820 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932350Ab2JCXdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:33:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121003232923.GA21374@roeck-us.net> References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003232923.GA21374@roeck-us.net> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:33:21 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: YjAs31ciKhB4VVNFaoVGpbhfzBQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default From: Kees Cook To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , "Paul E. McKenney" , 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: 1622 Lines: 39 On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > 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 >> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" >> CC: Serge Hallyn >> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" >> CC: Andrew Morton >> CC: Frederic Weisbecker >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook >> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn >> >> --- >> 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). Great, thanks! -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/