Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 15:50:37 EST


On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:41:57 -0700
Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Of course it is - Adrian is however trying to remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
and reality is getting in his way again
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