Re: [Patch] netconsole: do not depend on experimental

From: Neil Horman
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 08:59:29 EST


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:59:23AM -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>
> Nowadays, most distributions enable netconsole by default,
> including RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Arch, Opensuse. And
> we don't have any bug reports about it. So I think there
> is no need to mark it as experimental any more.
>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> index 0ba5b8e..e3d6c52 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> @@ -3252,15 +3252,14 @@ config NET_FC
> "SCSI generic support".
>
> config NETCONSOLE
> - tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + tristate "Network console logging support"
> ---help---
> If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
> See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
>
> config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
> - bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
> + bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
> + depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS
> select CONFIGFS_FS
> help
> This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
> --

Seems reasonable. Netconsole seems pretty mature.

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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