Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 07/01/2013 11:20 AM, Jeff Horelick wrote:
> On 1 July 2013 10:41, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>
>> Please reply to gentoo-dev in case ML daemon changes Reply-To.
>>
>>
>> ### TL; DR ###
>>
>> By introducing feature patches which menu options are disabled by
>> default to genpatches, we can deduplicate *-sources maintainers as well
>> as large groups of users work. By introducing a distribution section
>> in the menuconfig, we can provide options that enable minimal Gentoo
>> requirements by default (DEVTMPFS, making Gentoo systems bootable since
>> an udev release a long time ago) and other distribution stuff.
>
> I really like this idea. geek-sources has appealed to me massively the
> past few months, but i didn't want to risk stability and go with a
> kernel from a unofficial overlay. I can not wait to see this in
> gentoo-sources and I fully support this idea.
>
Tom, you already know my opinion because we discussed it.  I'm all for 
it.  Just a reminder: there's always problems somewhere in the kernel 
which can be triggered by various options.  The kernel is not one big 
take it or leave it chunk of code, but many chunks selectable by Kconfig 
with the exception of course of the core.  The best we can do wrt to BFQ 
and other "risky" patches is mark these options as EXPERIMENTAL.  I was 
going to say depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in Kconfig, but this is 
deprecated.  See scripts/checkpatch.pl

     "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580"

--Tony

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