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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:17:07PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> On 07/01/2013 03:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: |
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> >On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:45:16PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> >>>>Q: What about my stable server? I really don't want to run this |
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> >>>>stuff! |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>>A: These options would depend on !CONFIG_VANILLA or |
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> >>>>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL |
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> >>>What is CONFIG_VANILLA? I don't see that in the upstream kernel tree |
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> >>>at all. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is now gone from upstream, so you are going to |
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> >>>have a problem with this. |
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> >>Earlier I mentioned "2) These feature should depend on a non-vanilla / |
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> >>experimental option." which is an option we would introduce under the |
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> >>Gentoo distribution menu section. |
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> >Distro-specific config options, great :( |
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> I'm not sure what you mean by "distro-specific", |
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See later mention of CONFIG_GENTOO_EXPERIMENTAL, that is what I was |
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referring to. |
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> but suppose people |
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> want BFQ? Why can't we have it in gentoo-sources. It is totally |
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> disabled by not selecting CONFIG_BFQ. Selecting it is no different |
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> than emerging pf-sources with the same other options ported over. |
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Until you run into a patch that modifies code outside of it's CONFIG_ |
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option, like the aufs example I pointed out. |
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> By your logic, we should not distribut pf-sources either. The truth |
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> of the matter is, there are forks of the vanilla kernel out there. Are |
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> you suggesting we distribute none of them? |
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That's a total false argument, the discussion here is about our "main" |
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gentoo-kernel tree, not one of our many domain-specific kernel versions |
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that are maintained separately. |
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> NOTE: hardened-sources is its own world. There is not level of |
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> turning on/off options that get you back to a vanilla kernel. |
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Agreed, which keeps that from being merged into this tree, hopefully :) |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |