Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965137Ab2JDOdX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:33:23 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:41833 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965091Ab2JDOdV (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:33:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:31:50 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Kees Cook , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default Message-ID: <20121004143150.GA2464@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121003161702.GA22008@kroah.com> <20121003164712.GF2527@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121003200314.GR2527@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121004015539.GA19958@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121004015539.GA19958@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) x-cbid: 12100414-1976-0000-0000-00001203882F Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 19 On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:55:39AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > That has not proven sufficient for me in the past, RCU_FAST_NO_HZ > > being a case in point. > > Taint the kernel at boot time? That'd be sufficient to force distros to > disable it. Cool! That does sound much more socially responsible than my thought of forcing a splat (e.g., WARN_ON(1)) during boot. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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/