[CRIU] CONFIG_EXPERT still necessary

[Eric W. Biederman]

Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> writes:

> 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?

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