linux-kernel - Re: Question about reference to config KERNEL_6

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Message-ID: <8cce0dee8588b9f3cd0c1a3f073466b01905a703.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:47:44 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, linux-wireless
	 <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>, kernel-janitors
	 <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
	 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about reference to config KERNEL_6_2

> 
> Commit ffbd0c8c1e7f ("wifi: mac80211: add an element parsing unit
> test") and commit 730eeb17bbdd ("wifi: cfg80211: add first kunit
> tests, for element defrag") add new configs that depend on
> !KERNEL_6_2, but the config option KERNEL_6_2 does not exist in the
> tree.
> 
> Also, Kalle Valo [1] asked during patch review about that, but did not
> get any response on the mailing list.

Oops, I probably thought I'd clean that up and forgot.

> So, what is the KERNEL_6_2 option all about? Is this something that
> was just used locally for early development?

It's a backport-ism (backports.wiki.kernel.org) to restrict the option
to certain kernels.

> Can we just delete this dependency in these two config options?

Yes, we should.

johannes