Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/9/2012 12:56 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Back to my initial question, am I right to assume that > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental and can be enabled in > distribution kernels? it HAS been enabled in distribution kernels for YEARS. so yes. -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Le lundi 09 juillet 2012 à 09:56 +0200, Jean Delvare a écrit : > As for options still depending on EXPERIMENTAL when they no longer > should, this can partly be explained when the EXPERIMENTAL dependency > doesn't show up in the short description. This is the case of > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR. As

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 22:19 +0200, Paul Bolle a écrit : > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental". > > > > it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway. > > See Russell King's quick survey in

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 22:19 +0200, Paul Bolle a écrit : On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I rather just retire the whole concept of Experimental. it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway. See Russell King's quick survey in

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Le lundi 09 juillet 2012 à 09:56 +0200, Jean Delvare a écrit : As for options still depending on EXPERIMENTAL when they no longer should, this can partly be explained when the EXPERIMENTAL dependency doesn't show up in the short description. This is the case of CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR. As

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/9/2012 12:56 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: Back to my initial question, am I right to assume that CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental and can be enabled in distribution kernels? it HAS been enabled in distribution kernels for YEARS. so yes. -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Paul Bolle
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I rather just retire the whole concept of "Experimental". > > it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway. See Russell King's quick survey in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/397 : almost all defconfigs had CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/6/2012 10:57 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Randy, > > Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a écrit : >> On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: >> >>> This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is >>> no longer considered experimental. >>> >>>

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Randy, Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a écrit : > On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is > > no longer considered experimental. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare > > Cc: Ingo Molnar

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is > no longer considered experimental. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Arjan van de Ven > Cc: Andi Kleen > --- > Or is there any reason to still consider

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is no longer considered experimental. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare jdelv...@suse.de Cc: Ingo Molnar mi...@redhat.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven ar...@linux.intel.com Cc: Andi Kleen

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Randy, Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a écrit : On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is no longer considered experimental. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare jdelv...@suse.de Cc: Ingo

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/6/2012 10:57 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Randy, Le vendredi 06 juillet 2012 à 10:23 -0700, Randy Dunlap a écrit : On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is no longer considered experimental. Signed-off-by: Jean

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental

2012-07-06 Thread Paul Bolle
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:58 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I rather just retire the whole concept of Experimental. it's really utterly meaningless in practice anyway. See Russell King's quick survey in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/397 : almost all defconfigs had CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL