From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:19:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121216161921.GO2542@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1212160527210.17128@nerf07.vanv.qr>
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:29:21AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2012-10-03 18:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, I will bite... How should I flag an option that is initially only
> >> intended for those willing to take some level of risk?
> >
> >In the text say "You really don't want to enable this option, use at
> >your own risk!" Or something like that :)
>
> You know that won't not work, just like "everybody is encouraged
> to upgrade" for -stable. It needs to say "All users must disable this!"
The thought expressed earlier in this thread of unconditionally splatting
during boot seemed pretty compelling to me. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-16 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 19:50 [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default Kees Cook
2012-10-02 21:40 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-10-03 13:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 16:15 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 16:43 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-03 16:16 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-03 16:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-03 16:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 17:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-03 17:46 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-03 18:23 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-03 19:36 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-03 20:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 21:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-04 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 17:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 18:02 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-03 18:43 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 19:07 ` david
2012-10-03 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 22:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 0:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-04 1:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-04 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-05 16:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-06 16:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-07 1:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-07 2:33 ` Dave Airlie
2012-10-07 16:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-07 20:18 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-08 1:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 22:37 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:40 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 22:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 23:23 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 21:31 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-10-08 22:08 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-08 23:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-09 0:46 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-09 1:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-09 1:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-09 1:57 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-09 2:47 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-09 6:01 ` Kees Cook
2012-12-16 4:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 16:19 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-10-03 23:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-10-03 23:33 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 23:37 ` Guenter Roeck
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