Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:29:21AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 2012-10-03 18:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> 
> >> OK, I will bite...  How should I flag an option that is initially only
> >> intended for those willing to take some level of risk?
> >
> >In the text say "You really don't want to enable this option, use at
> >your own risk!"  Or something like that :)
> 
> You know that won't not work, just like "everybody is encouraged
> to upgrade" for -stable. It needs to say "All users must disable this!"

The thought expressed earlier in this thread of unconditionally splatting
during boot seemed pretty compelling to me.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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