Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755331Ab2JIAqN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:46:13 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:34246 "EHLO mail-la0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100Ab2JIAqK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:46:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121008235344.GC8157@kroah.com> References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121003161702.GA22008@kroah.com> <20121008235344.GC8157@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:46:08 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: jPRCUXjL-0GGbludRgYNoAb_Ni4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default From: Kees Cook To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker , Stephen Rothwell 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: 2804 Lines: 66 On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:08:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:25:38AM -0700, 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? >> > >> > In the text say "You really don't want to enable this option, use at >> > your own risk!" Or something like that :) >> >> So, should I update the commit description to include a suggested >> alternative? (If so, which one?) > > Which do you prefer? I think developers that want something harder that strongly worded text in the Kconfig title or description should throw a printk. >> Who is going to carry this initial patch, btw? > > You? :) Do you mean to say I should ask Stephen to pull from one of my trees for linux-next? If so, I've made this now: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git linux-next -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/