Re: [PATCH] md/raid456: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 01:03:37 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Dan Williams <djbw@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/md/Kconfig | 1 -
>> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> index 7cdf359..0cc3a3d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> @@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ config MULTICORE_RAID456
>> bool "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>> depends on MD_RAID456
>> depends on SMP
>> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>
> In this case MULTICORE_RAID456 and the related code should go as
> well... now that there are patches to supersede this implementation in
> md-next.

Hrm, well as long as EXPERIMENTAL goes away, I'm happy. :) I sent this
most recent patch series based on what was living in linux-next, so if
that's changing, that's fine.

-Kees

--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/