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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md/raid456: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:11:02 +1100
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:59:30 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wro=
te:
> >> 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 <keescook@chromium.org>
> >> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> >> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/md/Kconfig |    1 -
> >>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> >> index 7cdf359..0cc3a3d 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> >> @@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ config MULTICORE_RAID456
> >>         bool "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >>         depends on MD_RAID456
> >>         depends on SMP
> >> -       depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> >
> > In this case MULTICORE_RAID456 and the related code should go as
> > well... now that there are patches to supersede this implementation in
> > md-next.
>=20
> Can my original patch go through as-is for Linus's tree? Right now,
> this is the last use of EXPERIMENTAL in v3.9-rc1. If we can drop it,
> we can remove the config item entirely from v3.9.

My pull request which removes CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 completely was a lit=
tle
late and missed -rc1.  Hopefully it will appear soon.
But if it isn't gone by -rc2, I have no objection to your patch going in th=
en.

NeilBrown

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