From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:40:34 +0000 Message-ID: <20080102204034.703ebdd3@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20080102013218.GO27566@does.not.exist> <20080102174157.GD3351@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:51832 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753437AbYABUuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:50:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080102174157.GD3351@webber.adilger.int> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:41:57 -0700 Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 02, 2008 03:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, > > but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel > > offered it - and that's definitely not intended. > > > > Anyone who _really_ wants to test ext4 should anyway be able to do the > > trivial change of removing the "depends on BROKEN" line. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk > > > > @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config EXT3_FS_SECURITY > > > > config EXT4DEV_FS > > tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > - depends on EXPERIMENTAL > > + depends on BROKEN > > select JBD2 > > select CRC16 > > help > > Isn't CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enough? Of course it is - Adrian is however trying to remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and reality is getting in his way again