From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:29:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003232923.GA21374@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:50:42PM -0000, 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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> CC: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
>
> ---
> 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 cherry-picked the hwmon/pmbus patch (commit 41c5b6bb).
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 19:50 [PATCH] " Kees Cook
2012-10-02 21:40 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-10-03 13:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 16:15 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 16:43 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-03 16:16 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-03 16:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-03 16:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 17:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-03 17:46 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-03 18:23 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-03 19:36 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-03 20:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 21:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-04 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 17:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 18:02 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-03 18:43 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 19:07 ` david
2012-10-03 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 22:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 0:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-04 1:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-04 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-05 16:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-06 16:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-07 1:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-07 2:33 ` Dave Airlie
2012-10-07 16:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-07 20:18 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-08 1:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 22:37 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:40 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 23:23 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 21:31 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-08 22:08 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 23:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-09 0:46 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-09 1:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-09 1:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-09 1:57 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-09 2:47 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-09 6:01 ` Kees Cook
2012-12-16 4:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 16:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 23:29 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2012-10-03 23:33 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 23:37 ` Guenter Roeck
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