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: s

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 ht

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 ena

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. >>> >>> Sig

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 t