On 07/01/2013 11:20 AM, Jeff Horelick wrote:
On 1 July 2013 10:41, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello
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### 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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