On 08.01.2026 15:24, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 08.01.2026 15:16, [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Denis Mukhin <[email protected]> 
>>
>> Amends: 37339ba9ef46 ("automation: Remove XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT leftovers")
>> Signed-off-by: Denis Mukhin <[email protected]>
> 
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Actually no, I withdraw this. It makes little sense to update ...

> However, ...
> 
>> --- a/INSTALL
>> +++ b/INSTALL
>> @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ small subset of the options.  Attempts to change other 
>> options will be
>>  silently overridden.  The only way to find which configuration options
>>  are available is to run `make menuconfig' or the like.
> 
> ... I don't think what is said up from here is quite right. As a result, ...
> 
>> -You can counter-override this behaviour by setting XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT=y
>> -in your environment.  However, doing this is not supported and the
>> +You can counter-override this behaviour by setting CONFIG_EXPERT=y

... just this reference, when things also work differently now (?). (IOW
the original description ...

>> +in your Kconfig file.  However, doing this is not supported and the
>>  resulting configurations do not receive security support.  If you set
>>  this variable there is nothing stopping you setting dangerously
>>  experimental combinations of features - not even any warnings.
> 
> ... some of this is also in need of updating / correcting.

... may or may not have been correct when it was still an env var.)

Jan

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