Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 12:42:17 EST


On Jan 02, 2008 03:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels,
> but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel
> offered it - and that's definitely not intended.
>
> Anyone who _really_ wants to test ext4 should anyway be able to do the
> trivial change of removing the "depends on BROKEN" line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
>
> config EXT4DEV_FS
> tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + depends on BROKEN
> select JBD2
> select CRC16
> help

Isn't CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enough?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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