config: add big EXPERIMENTAL option

As discussed in the today's (2020-12-10) meeting, add a new option to
menuconfig to group the selection of all experimental features to be
selected by default.
Developers are recommended to make use of this new symbol to guard
new features.
Other developers and community members should feel encouraged to
build with this flag enabled to help testing and provide feedback.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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Daniel Golle 2020-12-10 19:29:03 +00:00
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# See /LICENSE for more information. # See /LICENSE for more information.
# #
config EXPERIMENTAL
bool "Enable experimental features by default"
default n
help
Set this option to build with latest bleeding edge features
which may or may not work as expected.
If you would like to help the development of OpenWrt, you are
encouraged to set this option and provide feedback (both
positive and negative). But do so only if you know how to
recover your device in case of flashing potentially non-working
firmware.
If you plan to use this build in production, say NO!
menu "Global build settings" menu "Global build settings"
config JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO config JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO
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config TESTING_KERNEL config TESTING_KERNEL
bool "Use the testing kernel version" bool "Use the testing kernel version"
depends on HAS_TESTING_KERNEL depends on HAS_TESTING_KERNEL
default n default EXPERIMENTAL
help help
If the target supports a newer kernel version than the default, If the target supports a newer kernel version than the default,
you can use this config option to enable it you can use this config option to enable it