On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:01:14PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is > almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed > during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed. As a first step, > remove it from being listed, and default it to on. Once it has been > removed from all subsystem Kconfigs, it will be dropped entirely. > > For items that really are experimental, maintainers should use "default > n", optionally include "(EXPERIMENTAL)" in the title, and add language to > the help text indicating why the item should be considered experimental. > > For items that are dangerously experimental, the maintainer is encouraged > to follow the above title recommendation, add stronger language to the > help text, and optionally use (depending on the extent of the danger, > from least to most dangerous): printk(), add_taint(TAINT_WARN), > add_taint(TAINT_CRAP), WARN_ON(1), and CONFIG_BROKEN. > > CC: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> > CC: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com> > CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > --- > init/Kconfig | 31 ++----------------------------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
