netdev - Re: [Patch] netconsole: do not depend on experimental

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Message-ID: <20100322125919.GB4288@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:59:19 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch] netconsole: do not depend on experimental

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:59:23AM -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> 
> Nowadays, most distributions enable netconsole by default,
> including RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Arch, Opensuse. And
> we don't have any bug reports about it. So I think there
> is no need to mark it as experimental any more.
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> index 0ba5b8e..e3d6c52 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> @@ -3252,15 +3252,14 @@ config NET_FC
>  	  "SCSI generic support".
>  
>  config NETCONSOLE
> -	tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	tristate "Network console logging support"
>  	---help---
>  	If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
>  	See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
>  
>  config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
> -	bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
> +	depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS
>  	select CONFIGFS_FS
>  	help
>  	  This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
> --

Seems reasonable.  Netconsole seems pretty mature.

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

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