Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Oct 04 2012 - 10:33:12 EST


On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:55:39AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > That has not proven sufficient for me in the past, RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
> > being a case in point.
>
> Taint the kernel at boot time? That'd be sufficient to force distros to
> disable it.

Cool! That does sound much more socially responsible than my thought
of forcing a splat (e.g., WARN_ON(1)) during boot. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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