linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:19:09 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental".
> 
> it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway.

See Russell King's quick survey in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/397 :
almost all defconfigs had CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enabled. I didn't recheck
since I'm sure little has changed. That macro and the related Kconfig
symbol seem indeed meaningless.


Paul Bolle

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