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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>,
	Marco Bonelli <marco@mebeim.net>, Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 09:45:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202509010944.CAAFB2ED22@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a123ab8b-a335-48a1-9ac3-e3b348d78cd1@infradead.org>

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 09:39:46AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Are you (implicitly?) saying that all previous attempts at transitional
> kconfig symbols have failed?  If so, I just wasn't aware of that.

I haven't found any way to do a "proper" CONFIG transition. I looked
through past transitions and they all left stuff visible. Is there a way
to actually do this with existing kconfig?

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-01 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-30  2:01 [PATCH v2] kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support Kees Cook
2025-09-01  8:34 ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-01 16:56   ` Kees Cook
2025-09-01 18:20     ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-01 18:31       ` Kees Cook
2025-09-01 18:44         ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-04  2:51           ` Kees Cook
2025-09-04 17:03             ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-04 17:10               ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-05  9:41                 ` Vegard Nossum
2025-09-05 16:24                   ` Kees Cook
2025-09-05 16:23               ` Kees Cook
2025-09-23 21:36                 ` Kees Cook
2025-09-01  9:09 ` Jani Nikula
2025-09-01 16:48   ` Kees Cook
2025-09-01 16:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-01 16:45   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2025-09-01 16:54     ` Randy Dunlap

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