On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:43:08 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > This is a regression. Can you please revert this commit.
> 
> Not really. The thing is, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR has never done
> anything at all, now it does, and it shows that it never worked.
> 
> So the commit that made it do something shouldn't be reverted, but 
> CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR should be marked BROKEN, because it
> obviously is broken right now.
> 
> But keeping the config option, and just not making it do anything is 
> misleading and wrong.
> 
> So just something like this? To make sure normal people don't enable
> it..


looks fair; once the patches to make it work are merged the B0RKEN can
go away again easliy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to