From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751523Ab2LPQTh (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:19:37 -0500 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:44467 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990Ab2LPQTf (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:19:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:19:21 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default Message-ID: <20121216161921.GO2542@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20121002195042.GA16087@www.outflux.net> <20121003132538.GE13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121003161702.GA22008@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12121616-9360-0000-0000-00000E035BCD Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:29:21AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Wednesday 2012-10-03 18:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > >> OK, I will bite... How should I flag an option that is initially only > >> intended for those willing to take some level of risk? > > > >In the text say "You really don't want to enable this option, use at > >your own risk!" Or something like that :) > > You know that won't not work, just like "everybody is encouraged > to upgrade" for -stable. It needs to say "All users must disable this!" The thought expressed earlier in this thread of unconditionally splatting during boot seemed pretty compelling to me. ;-) Thanx, Paul