On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:24:36 -0700 Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
As I replied earlier and tried to make clear in my first post, this would be our own config variable; naming it CONFIG_GENTOO_EXPERIMENTAL for that matter as to not confuse people. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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