Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 02:01:29 EST


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 18:57:51 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 05:46:08PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> >> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:08:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >> >> Who is going to carry this initial patch, btw?
>> >> >
>> >> > You? :)
>> >>
>> >> Do you mean to say I should ask Stephen to pull from one of my trees
>> >> for linux-next? If so, I've made this now:
>> >>
>> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git linux-next
>> >
>> > Sounds good to me, good luck.
>>
>> Stephen, can you add this tree to your pulls for linux-next?
>
> For this single commit, if you want it to go in during this merge window,
> I suggest you send it as a patch to Linus. If there is going to be
> ongoing work on this topic, then I will be happy to add your tree after
> v3.7-rc1 is released (since the further work should be destined for v3.8,
> right?).

I'm intending it for 3.8, so waiting is fine.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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