On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:43:08 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > This is a regression. Can you please revert this commit. > > Not really. The thing is, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR has never done > anything at all, now it does, and it shows that it never worked. > > So the commit that made it do something shouldn't be reverted, but > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR should be marked BROKEN, because it > obviously is broken right now. > > But keeping the config option, and just not making it do anything is > misleading and wrong. > > So just something like this? To make sure normal people don't enable > it.. looks fair; once the patches to make it work are merged the B0RKEN can go away again easliy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/