Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:49:09 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:05:31AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > The original first commit had added 'BROKEN', although currently there
> > are no explanations about it in the tree.
> 
> commit c0dde7404aff064bff46ae1d5f1584d38e30c3bf
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>
> Date:   Sun Aug 17 21:23:57 2003 -0700
> 
>     Add CONFIG_BROKEN (default 'n') to hide known-broken drivers.

Thanks.  That was unkind of someone.  How's this?


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
Date: Mon Jul 14 05:20:02 PM PDT 2025

Linus added it in 2003, it later was removed.  Put it back.

Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 init/Kconfig |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/init/Kconfig~a
+++ a/init/Kconfig
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ menu "General setup"
 
 config BROKEN
 	bool
+	help
+	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to
+	  compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to
+	  new infrastructure.
 
 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
 	bool
_