Re: [PATCH 000/193] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-10-25T01:26:05Z

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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0700, Kees Cook said:
> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
> almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed
> during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed.
>
> As such, this is the patch series for removing CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL,
> with the hopes of all the various maintainers pulling these changes into
> their trees. I'm carrying the first patch (that makes CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> "default y") in my linux-next tree, so builds there will see the impact
> immediately.

Has anybody tested what happens if you're doing a git bisect that ends up crossing
back and forth across the commit for this? I've been burned before when stuff
evaporates out of my .config during a bisect when an option grows/loses a 'depends
on' clause.

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