From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934156Ab2JWXka (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:40:30 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:40660 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933579Ab2JWXk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:40:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121023233356.GY21164@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1351022666-6960-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1351022666-6960-8-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <20121023233356.GY21164@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:40:28 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Us4LItD2wkVCW7UKSWZvVBRLQV8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 007/193] arch/arm: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL From: Kees Cook To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:01:20PM -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. > > I have a patch queued up for -rc which removes a number of these, but > specifically leaves some which do cause people problems. So I'd > appreciate it if we kept some of these (EXPERIMENTAL) tags even if we > do drop the dependency. Okay, I'll switch it around to only drop the "depends on ..." Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security