[CRIU] CONFIG_EXPERT still necessary

[Pavel Emelyanov]

On 07/12/2018 11:58 AM, Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:48:46AM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> On 07/10/2018 05:05 PM, Adrian Reber wrote:
>>> Has there been any discussion if the EXPERT flag could be removed for
>>> CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in the kernel?
>>
>> I don't remember any actually.
>>
>>> The EXPERT flag makes it hard to find and sometimes it is difficult to
>>> enable options which are hidden behind EXPERT. I have seen multiple
>>> discussion about not enabling CHECKPOINT_RESTORE because of EXPERT.
>>>
>>> CHECKPOINT_RESTORE would still need to be enabled explicitly.
>>>
>>> Any comments?
>>
>> I would definitely ack the patch doing so :)
> 
> Good to know. Yesterday I talked with Eric Biederman about it and he
> said to having it default to 'y' as it really does not change much in
> the kernel. Looking at the defconfigs including CHECKPOINT_RESTORE they
> all set it to yes.
> 
> I will send a patch upstream to remove CONFIG_EXPERT in a first step
> with you all on CC.
> 
> Any ideas where to send the patch to? All persons which
> get_maintainer.pl returns?

I'd start with lkml@, Eric, Oleg, AKPM and us and see how it goes.

-- Pavel