linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 000/193] remove CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:25:30 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/193] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0700, Kees Cook said:
> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
> almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed
> during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed.
>
> As such, this is the patch series for removing CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL,
> with the hopes of all the various maintainers pulling these changes into
> their trees.  I'm carrying the first patch (that makes CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> "default y") in my linux-next tree, so builds there will see the impact
> immediately.

Has anybody tested what happens if you're doing a git bisect that ends up crossing
back and forth across the commit for this?  I've been burned before when stuff
evaporates out of my .config during a bisect when an option grows/loses a 'depends
on' clause.

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