On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:09:57 -0500
Matthew Summers <quantumsummers@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I think the point was well-made by grehkh.

You missed my response to that point.

> If the patchset patches the kernel's core, it doesn't matter what
> CONFIG_* option is set the core kernel code _has_now_been_changed_.
> This is the crux of the argument, I believe. AUFS simply being one
> example of this. I'm sure there are others.

As per my response to that point, this statement is no longer true.

Let me re-iterate it here:

Earlier I mentioned "3) The patch should not affect the build by
default."; if it does, we have to adjust it to not do that, this is
something that can be easily scripted. It's just a matter of embedding
each + block in the diff with a config check and updating the counts.

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