Re: make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:33:21PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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!
> 
I also picked the Documentation/hwmon patch (fbe3d657620).

Guenter
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