From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/xen: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:40:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20130224144017.GB1111@kroah.com> References: <20130223072959.GA4894@www.outflux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Dongsheng Song Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Kees Cook , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "x86@kernel.org" , LKML , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Mukesh Rathor , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 05:51:44PM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Dongsheng Song > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > >>> > >>> The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a > >>> while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the > >>> Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > >>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini > >>> Cc: Mukesh Rathor > >>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > >>> --- > >>> arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 2 +- > >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> index 93ff4e1..8cada4c 100644 > >>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ config XEN_DEBUG_FS > >>> > >>> config XEN_X86_PVH > >>> bool "Support for running as a PVH guest (EXPERIMENTAL)" > >> > >> Why not remove this 'EXPERIMENTAL' too ? > > > > It was unclear to me if the feature was actually considered unstable. > > I can resend with the text removed from the title too, if that's the > > correct action here? > > > > -Kees > > > > If such a feature was considered unstable, it should depends on EXPERIMENTAL. CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is going away. > We should not surprised users. You should not have unstable options in the kernel in the first place, sorry. greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758028Ab3BXOje (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:39:34 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:64239 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757908Ab3BXOjd (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:39:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:40:17 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Dongsheng Song Cc: Kees Cook , LKML , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "x86@kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Stefano Stabellini , Mukesh Rathor Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/xen: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Message-ID: <20130224144017.GB1111@kroah.com> References: <20130223072959.GA4894@www.outflux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 05:51:44PM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Dongsheng Song > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > >>> > >>> The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a > >>> while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the > >>> Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > >>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini > >>> Cc: Mukesh Rathor > >>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > >>> --- > >>> arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 2 +- > >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> index 93ff4e1..8cada4c 100644 > >>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig > >>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ config XEN_DEBUG_FS > >>> > >>> config XEN_X86_PVH > >>> bool "Support for running as a PVH guest (EXPERIMENTAL)" > >> > >> Why not remove this 'EXPERIMENTAL' too ? > > > > It was unclear to me if the feature was actually considered unstable. > > I can resend with the text removed from the title too, if that's the > > correct action here? > > > > -Kees > > > > If such a feature was considered unstable, it should depends on EXPERIMENTAL. CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is going away. > We should not surprised users. You should not have unstable options in the kernel in the first place, sorry. greg k-h