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Message-ID: <20080102204034.703ebdd3@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:40:34 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, sct@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adilger@...sterfs.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:41:57 -0700
Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> wrote:

> On Jan 02, 2008  03:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, 
> > but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel 
> > offered it - and that's definitely not intended.
> > 
> > Anyone who _really_ wants to test ext4 should anyway be able to do the 
> > trivial change of removing the "depends on BROKEN" line.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
> > 
> > @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
> >  
> >  config EXT4DEV_FS
> >  	tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> > +	depends on BROKEN
> >  	select JBD2
> >  	select CRC16
> >  	help
> 
> Isn't CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enough?

Of course it is - Adrian is however trying to remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
and reality is getting in his way again 
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