Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 7/6/2012 10:57 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 Ã 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a Ãcrit :
>> On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>
>>> This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is
>>> no longer considered experimental.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Or is there any reason to still consider this an experimental feature?
>>
>>
>> I doubt it, but if it is still experimental, it should also have
>> 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> and then it would be nice if kconfig (the software) would add the
>>   " (EXPERIMENTAL)" tag when it sees such a dependency.
> 
> Oh yeah, I've been dreaming of this for years now but never found the
> time to actually look into implementing it. Not sure if I would actually
> be able to anyway, as it will probably require some Kconfig magic beyond
> my knowledge.

I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental".

it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway.

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