Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934144Ab2JWXPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:52 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:65508 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934100Ab2JWXPi (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:15:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Kees Cook cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Jan Beulich , Mel Gorman , Seth Jennings Subject: Re: [PATCH 158/193] mm: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1351022666-6960-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1351022666-6960-159-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1407 Lines: 33 On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Kees Cook wrote: > > This makes ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL pointless, why keep it around? > > Good point. This seems to trigger much deeper changes. All of these > and their logic go away: > > arch/arm/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/arm/mach-clps711x/Kconfig: select ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/arm64/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/ia64/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/parisc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/powerpc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/s390/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/sh/mm/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/sparc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > arch/x86/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL > > Along with mm/Kconfig:config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL and associated logic. > > How about we handle this as a phase 2, and for phase 1, I just drop > EXPERIMENTAL? > Yeah, sounds like a good idea. If anybody complains because they were allowed to select their memory model because CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y and not because ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL, then we should be able to fix the option for their arch. -- 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/