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 D17491381F3 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5FF0E0BA2; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D63DE0B95 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-69-207-16-110.buffalo.res.rr.com [69.207.16.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1891333E788 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51D1F208.6030409@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:18:00 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130628 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration. References: <20130701164149.131490f8@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <51D1CADB.4030503@gentoo.org> <20130701192436.GB30808@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130701192436.GB30808@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 171de58b-4d30-4486-add3-048d154777b2 X-Archives-Hash: 9da1f1338b4f2c32dd1718e4e644396b On 07/01/2013 03:24 PM, 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 >> >> "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580" > It's flat out gone now in the 3.10 kernel release, so if you use it, > your code just will never be enabled. > > greg k-h > Yeah i noticed that right after sending it. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA