From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5670D1381F3 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCB5DE0AF4; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jacques.telenet-ops.be (jacques.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFBDE0ADA for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by jacques.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id v7gi1l00g2khLEN0J7gig7; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:40:42 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:40:40 +0200 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration. Message-ID: <20130701214040.1d6ce0a1@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <20130701192436.GB30808@kroah.com> References: <20130701164149.131490f8@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <51D1CADB.4030503@gentoo.org> <20130701192436.GB30808@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.19; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/c._yW+e1jNkV4u2q292_xgP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 34ab973c-d04d-46d0-babf-9736a99f4fc5 X-Archives-Hash: 1f569e89491552daf8bf806c90771650 --Sig_/c._yW+e1jNkV4u2q292_xgP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:24:36 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > Tom, you already know my opinion because we discussed it. I'm all > > for it. Just a reminder: there's always problems somewhere in the > > kernel which can be triggered by various options. The kernel is not > > one big take it or leave it chunk of code, but many chunks > > selectable by Kconfig with the exception of course of the core. The > > best we can do wrt to BFQ and other "risky" patches is mark these > > options as EXPERIMENTAL. I was going to say depend on > > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in Kconfig, but this is deprecated. See > > scripts/checkpatch.pl > >=20 > > "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580" >=20 > It's flat out gone now in the 3.10 kernel release, so if you use it, > your code just will never be enabled. As I replied earlier and tried to make clear in my first post, this would be our own config variable; naming it CONFIG_GENTOO_EXPERIMENTAL for that matter as to not confuse people. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/c._yW+e1jNkV4u2q292_xgP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR0ds4AAoJEJWyH81tNOV95hYIAIPIM38VQvUnynJ3G5uaFj/l 9+Z3Y5GCwogqSPUA6BX8ryilreSjsOEyyBaD4m4fZJkqltEebbm5BQG0I3OsJpw5 g4Osiqb5g9mEtuag0WOwYA3imrdEiIsmQDuYdqv3+c3dqs7IbXNDRC/SuhCCmCsH HJlqwp8msMKu/QioY/OyOZmZWT6sNm2UM+mJlvb1N6OLnQpPMtstXZa0x29Ao1ca hGAd5lFJYIsPccoL6QFS93xIGjAEze6BlqJz7SI4ZzX3VqvCTPoaJwKKPx+7iu3G ojdiTTsZ/FK4yvoCQ0Uphq2/sZaXrbX2JLQIfSA3xGmxW0WGe9a2rMaSCXdJyTE= =1qMa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/c._yW+e1jNkV4u2q292_xgP--