Quoting Kees Cook (keesc...@chromium.org): > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Serge Hallyn > <serge.hal...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Quoting Kees Cook (keesc...@chromium.org): > >> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is > >> almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel > >> summit, remove it. > >> > >> 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> > >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > >> --- > >> init/Kconfig | 23 ++++++++++------------- > >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > >> index 2bf7b83..4b65c1c 100644 > >> --- a/init/Kconfig > >> +++ b/init/Kconfig > >> @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL > >> > >> config POSIX_MQUEUE > >> bool "POSIX Message Queues" > >> - depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL > >> + depends on NET > >> ---help--- > >> POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message > >> queues every message has a priority which decides about succession > >> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 > >> at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. > >> > >> config TASKSTATS > >> - bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" > >> + bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" > > > > In these cases, should we keep the '(EXPERIMENTAL)' text since it is just > > a hint to anyone running make menuconfig? I think removing the 'depends on > > EXPERIMENTAL's is fine, but cases we should leave it (or replace it) as > > a textual hint, except in cases where we're sure that is no longer the case. > > I covered this in the 000 intro email (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580):
intro email is an appreciated courtesy, but should not take the place of info in the individual patch changelogs, especially as the intro emails won't go into git history. > Some patches remove "(EXPERIMENTAL)" from Kconfig titles when there was > no "depends on EXPERIMENTAL". I've removed the cases of these where I Hm, I was under the impression that taskstats are not quite trusted yet, but I could be way out of date with that. > know the maintainer intended it that way. I've left the others in case a > "depends on EXPERIMENTAL" had been removed in the past and it had been > accidentally forgotten in the title. If the title is correct as-is, > just let me know, and I'll drop the patch from my series. > > > So, if some of these need to be adjusted, I'm fine with that. I opted > for aggressive removal in this first series. > > -Kees > > -- > Kees Cook > Chrome OS Security -- 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/
