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consider this random Kconfig file arch/x86_64/oprofile/Kconfig:
============================= config PROFILING bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" help Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers such as OProfile.
config OPROFILE tristate "OProfile system profiling (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on PROFILING help OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, and applications.
If unsure, say N. ==============================
the above is a bit silly. note that both prompts advertise themselves as "EXPERIMENTAL" even though neither of them has such a dependency. they *are*, however, part of an submenu that *is* dependent on EXPERIMENTAL (although you'd never know that just by looking at that Kconfig file). in short, it's just kind of ugly hackery at the moment.
Yes but pushing the EXPERIMENTAL check to individual menu members shouldn't be done in a way which leads to an empty menu for any kernel configuration. I suspect that this is why the EXPERIMENTAL check is on the instrumentation menu in the first place.
my original point was simply that, based on its acceptance, it would seem kprobes has progressed beyond the EXPERIMENTAL phase, that's all.
-- Abhishek Sagar -
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