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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
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On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental".
> 
> it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway.

See Russell King's quick survey in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/397 :
almost all defconfigs had CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enabled. I didn't recheck
since I'm sure little has changed. That macro and the related Kconfig
symbol seem indeed meaningless.


Paul Bolle