On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Tom, you already know my opinion because we discussed it. I'm all > for it. Just a reminder: there's always problems somewhere in the > kernel which can be triggered by various options. The kernel is not > one big take it or leave it chunk of code, but many chunks > selectable by Kconfig with the exception of course of the core. The > best we can do wrt to BFQ and other "risky" patches is mark these > options as EXPERIMENTAL. I was going to say depend on > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in Kconfig, but this is deprecated. See > scripts/checkpatch.pl > > "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580";
It's flat out gone now in the 3.10 kernel release, so if you use it, your code just will never be enabled. greg k-h
