Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:40:17 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/xen: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL |
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 05:51:44PM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Dongsheng Song > > <dongsheng.song@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 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, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > >>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> > >>> Cc: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> > >>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> > >>> --- > >>> arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 2 +- > >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> index 93ff4e1..8cada4c 100644 > >>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ config XEN_DEBUG_FS > >>> > >>> config XEN_X86_PVH > >>> bool "Support for running as a PVH guest (EXPERIMENTAL)" > >> > >> Why not remove this 'EXPERIMENTAL' too ? > > > > It was unclear to me if the feature was actually considered unstable. > > I can resend with the text removed from the title too, if that's the > > correct action here? > > > > -Kees > > > > If such a feature was considered unstable, it should depends on EXPERIMENTAL.
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is going away.
> We should not surprised users.
You should not have unstable options in the kernel in the first place, sorry.
greg k-h
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