From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c37a89e-cfc7-4d4c-89e1-1b3f1217b11e@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4e4a84-d929-4317-b920-d11f4bee60df@csgroup.eu>
Le 29/07/2025 à 17:50, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>
>
> Le 15/07/2025 à 02:31, Andrew Morton a écrit :
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:49:09 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:05:31AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> The original first commit had added 'BROKEN', although currently there
>>>> are no explanations about it in the tree.
>>>
>>> commit c0dde7404aff064bff46ae1d5f1584d38e30c3bf
>>> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>
>>> Date: Sun Aug 17 21:23:57 2003 -0700
>>>
>>> Add CONFIG_BROKEN (default 'n') to hide known-broken drivers.
>>
>> Thanks. That was unkind of someone. How's this?
>>
>>
>> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Subject: init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
>> Date: Mon Jul 14 05:20:02 PM PDT 2025
>>
>> Linus added it in 2003, it later was removed. Put it back.
>
> Was removed by:
>
> commit 3be71ba84f17f39131900f44e8ef513c696a5b11
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>
> Date: Mon Sep 1 21:30:14 2003 -0700
>
> Instead of asking for "broken drivers", ask for a "clean compile".
>
> This makes "allyesconfig" do a better job.
Which was then later removed by:
commit 3636641bb2c7a806c1099ca092ec8cd180063f9b
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Fri Feb 3 03:04:00 2006 -0800
[PATCH] don't allow users to set CONFIG_BROKEN=y
Do not allow people to create configurations with CONFIG_BROKEN=y.
The sole reason for CONFIG_BROKEN=y would be if you are working on
fixing a
broken driver, but in this case editing the Kconfig file is trivial.
Never ever should a user enable CONFIG_BROKEN.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b9923b1434a2f..8b7abae87bf9c 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -31,19 +31,8 @@ config EXPERIMENTAL
you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
-config CLEAN_COMPILE
- bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL
- default y
- help
- Select this option if you don't even want to see the option
- to configure known-broken drivers.
-
- If unsure, say Y
-
config BROKEN
bool
- depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE
- default y
config BROKEN_ON_SMP
bool
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-29 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-11 10:29 [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS Anshuman Khandual
2025-07-12 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2025-07-14 2:35 ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-07-14 9:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-07-15 0:31 ` Andrew Morton
2025-07-29 15:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-07-29 15:52 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
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