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On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:24:36 -0700 |
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Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> > Tom, you already know my opinion because we discussed it. I'm all |
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> > for it. Just a reminder: there's always problems somewhere in the |
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> > kernel which can be triggered by various options. The kernel is not |
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> > one big take it or leave it chunk of code, but many chunks |
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> > selectable by Kconfig with the exception of course of the core. The |
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> > best we can do wrt to BFQ and other "risky" patches is mark these |
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> > options as EXPERIMENTAL. I was going to say depend on |
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> > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in Kconfig, but this is deprecated. See |
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> > scripts/checkpatch.pl |
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> > "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see |
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> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580" |
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> It's flat out gone now in the 3.10 kernel release, so if you use it, |
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> your code just will never be enabled. |
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As I replied earlier and tried to make clear in my first post, this |
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would be our own config variable; naming it CONFIG_GENTOO_EXPERIMENTAL |
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for that matter as to not confuse people. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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