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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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> |
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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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greg k-h |
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