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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:52:12PM +0000, Bityutskiy, Artem wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 16:50 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > Or mark R/W as experimental and make your module to be R/O by default.
> > Force people to use 'blockdev --setro' if they want R/W. Run-time.
> 
> Err, here I did not mean the Kconfig experimental. I am asking for no
> Kconfig options for this. I more meant like tell people where the docs
> are, and tell there that write support is experimental.

I'd rather have no option either and have it naturally support the
features. Build-time options are always annoying, you disable them
at the beginning believing they're useless, then you regret this
when you try to use them...

Willy