From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1ED6019343B; Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752539472; cv=none; b=gTxzr+2uHNgyPG+KPzggivulUZNKt9H8h7f9z9rDIdpYU1J1MZhT6kZZhh4pfgm6c+NhbiyXy7bR6hRPki4z6Em/QYsJi2288fP19MJS93YfU1+taOWbcMztr70hwsER4Cq0sPf1A1q0bTG7kajTGJKBmCd9WLqln5yJphMgACY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752539472; c=relaxed/simple; bh=AmsDUkdWp+D2t1MNpQN905rUeQWgnBNIiuKOAQBsbnY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=QQEje4D5eBZMKujgo7MXZwaitfvBbEhcKpcdK8AXNeVEITdZhUA+fNvYIUh4C2xp2bRu3Nn905w4wpaD0pY83uHap6e/+8ife7BZENAYVIBpb1nAltNw+VMM9DSmcAL232Gt8+IHohN4X5M7u5XZz6Npbid+YydOkBvHH+X1UMs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=BiyNIZbI; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="BiyNIZbI" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CC19C4CEF0; Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:31:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1752539470; bh=AmsDUkdWp+D2t1MNpQN905rUeQWgnBNIiuKOAQBsbnY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=BiyNIZbIhI81BH5kvc3pxIN4vczjERj5q7uQi3I+U4ljGTnuTerwVbUVigGrpSFpC MoCTw9QY8OtZzzVMkMmhnQ2bJiG1tfOatf+XrDVBsdemRGr6j3KuR/xhvu9dbzUkm0 QSq7uz3kVbgkEwgjl2V2NCquwQcLtqQa6kM4E7oM= Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:31:09 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Anshuman Khandual , linux-mm@kvack.org, "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS Message-Id: <20250714173109.265d1fbfa9884cd22c3a6975@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20250714094909.GBaHTSlW8nkuINON9p@fat_crate.local> References: <20250711102934.2399533-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <20250712161549.499ec62de664904bd86ffa90@linux-foundation.org> <20250714094909.GBaHTSlW8nkuINON9p@fat_crate.local> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:49:09 +0200 Borislav Petkov 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 > 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 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 Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 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 _