From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.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 09:48:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202509010945.D266C0E6@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bca36d46dab04667aa595623fd0966385ee4658@intel.com>
On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 12:09:14PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> wrote:
> > The transitional syntax requires a type argument and prevents type
> > redefinition:
> >
> > config OLD_OPTION
> > transitional bool
> > help
> > Transitional config for OLD_OPTION migration.
>
> How long do you think we'll need to keep the transitional config options
> around? Forever?
As with the "manual" transitions, it'd probably be until the next LTS is
released.
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-01 16:48 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 [this message]
2025-09-01 16:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-01 16:45 ` Kees Cook
2025-09-01 16:54 ` Randy Dunlap
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