Re: [PATCH 173/193] net/mac80211: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-24T00:39:53Z

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Hi All,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:22:23 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:16 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:15:50 +0200
> >
> >> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 13:04 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >>> This 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.
> >>>
> >>> CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> >>> CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> >>> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> >>
> >> Presumably somebody is going to submit a git tree with the entire series
> >> and you don't want me to pick up this piece, right?
> >
> > He better not expect us to take this stuff.
>
> I'm going to do whatever each maintainer wants. :)
>
> Sounds like you guys would like me to carry these in my tree, so I'll
> add them to linux-next.

I would much prefer that they are merged via each maintainers tree as that
will eliminate the inevitable conflicts (for which I will bear the
pain :-().

These are not big hard patches and have no dependencies on anything, so
what is the problem?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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