Re: make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:50:42PM -0000, Kees Cook wrote:
>> This 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, it should be removed. As a first step, remove it from being
>> listed, and default it to on. Once it has been removed from all
>> subsystem Kconfigs, it will be dropped entirely.
>>
>> CC: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> This is the first of a series of 202 patches removing EXPERIMENTAL from
>> all the Kconfigs in the tree. Should I send them all to lkml (with all
>> the associated CCs), or do people want to cherry-pick changes from my
>> tree? I don't want to needlessly flood the list.
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/experimental
>>
> I cherry-picked the hwmon/pmbus patch (commit 41c5b6bb).

Great, thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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