Quoting Kees Cook (keesc...@chromium.org):
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Serge Hallyn
> <serge.hal...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm happy to leave the taskstats title alone. Shall I?

Heh, no, sounds like I'm just way out of date.  Thanks Kees!

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com>

thanks,
-serge
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