Re: [PATCH 158/193] mm: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

David Rientjes
2012-10-23T23:15:52Z

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Kees Cook wrote:

> > This makes ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL pointless, why keep it around?
>
> Good point. This seems to trigger much deeper changes. All of these
> and their logic go away:
>
> arch/arm/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/arm/mach-clps711x/Kconfig: select ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/arm64/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/ia64/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/parisc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/s390/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/sh/mm/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/sparc/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
> arch/x86/Kconfig:config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
>
> Along with mm/Kconfig:config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL and associated logic.
>
> How about we handle this as a phase 2, and for phase 1, I just drop
> EXPERIMENTAL?
>

Yeah, sounds like a good idea. If anybody complains because they were
allowed to select their memory model because CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y and not
because ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL, then we should be able to fix the option
for their arch.