From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758147Ab2GFR6N (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:58:13 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:57484 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757859Ab2GFR6M (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:58:12 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="174237836" Message-ID: <4FF72733.8000007@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:58:11 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Delvare CC: Randy Dunlap , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental References: <1341583705.4655.18.camel@amber.site> <4FF71F1C.4040608@xenotime.net> <1341597439.4655.23.camel@amber.site> In-Reply-To: <1341597439.4655.23.camel@amber.site> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/6/2012 10:57 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Randy, > > Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a écrit : >> On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: >> >>> This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is >>> no longer considered experimental. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare >>> Cc: Ingo Molnar >>> Cc: Arjan van de Ven >>> Cc: Andi Kleen >>> --- >>> Or is there any reason to still consider this an experimental feature? >> >> >> I doubt it, but if it is still experimental, it should also have >> depends on EXPERIMENTAL > > Agreed. > >> and then it would be nice if kconfig (the software) would add the >> " (EXPERIMENTAL)" tag when it sees such a dependency. > > Oh yeah, I've been dreaming of this for years now but never found the > time to actually look into implementing it. Not sure if I would actually > be able to anyway, as it will probably require some Kconfig magic beyond > my knowledge. I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental". it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway.