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Message-Id: <20250714173109.265d1fbfa9884cd22c3a6975@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:31:09 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
 sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if
 ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:49:09 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:05:31AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > The original first commit had added 'BROKEN', although currently there
> > are no explanations about it in the tree.
> 
> commit c0dde7404aff064bff46ae1d5f1584d38e30c3bf
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...e.osdl.org>
> Date:   Sun Aug 17 21:23:57 2003 -0700
> 
>     Add CONFIG_BROKEN (default 'n') to hide known-broken drivers.

Thanks.  That was unkind of someone.  How's this?

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
Date: Mon Jul 14 05:20:02 PM PDT 2025

Linus added it in 2003, it later was removed.  Put it back.

Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 init/Kconfig |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/init/Kconfig~a
+++ a/init/Kconfig
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ menu "General setup"

 config BROKEN
 	bool
+	help
+	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to
+	  compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to
+	  new infrastructure.

 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
 	bool
_