From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932931Ab2JYG3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:29:13 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:57283 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755693Ab2JYG3M (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:29:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59643.1351128330@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <1351022666-6960-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <59643.1351128330@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:29:10 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4smo067vBaRfQe2whCeUkdxVWpE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/193] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL From: Kees Cook To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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 Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:25 PM, wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0700, Kees Cook said: >> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is >> almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed >> during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed. >> >> As such, this is the patch series for removing CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, >> with the hopes of all the various maintainers pulling these changes into >> their trees. I'm carrying the first patch (that makes CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL >> "default y") in my linux-next tree, so builds there will see the impact >> immediately. > > Has anybody tested what happens if you're doing a git bisect that ends up crossing > back and forth across the commit for this? I've been burned before when stuff > evaporates out of my .config during a bisect when an option grows/loses a 'depends > on' clause. I haven't tried a bisect, but I've been bouncing around between trees and haven't had any surprises yet. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security