linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 76/86] fs/btrfs: remove depends on CONFIG

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:20:30 -0800
From:	rh <richard_hubbe11@...abit.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 76/86] fs/btrfs: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:54:08 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
> while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during
> the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in
> Kconfigs.
> 
> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...ionio.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/Kconfig |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
> index d33f01c..ccd25ba 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>  config BTRFS_FS
> -	tristate "Btrfs filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL) Unstable disk
> format"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	tristate "Btrfs filesystem Unstable disk format"

No longer an experiment but still "Unstable".  But is it broken?
Or is it staging or a pet? 
>From my naive point of view it seems like this set of patches is
unleashing a bunch of bad stuff onto anyone that actually sets
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL "n". But I guess it's supposed to get caught in
linux-next.

>  	select LIBCRC32C
>  	select ZLIB_INFLATE
>  	select ZLIB_DEFLATE
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 


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