Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 13:56:44 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Is OPROFILE actively maintained? |
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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Part of the problem with EXPERIMENTAL is that it's been taken > to mean all sorts of things over the years
yes
> from "this isn't quite ready, but works"
ok for -mm perhaps, not mainline
> to "if you enable this, you're a lunatic".
suitable for neither -mm not mainline
> It's meant that pretty much everyone has to enable > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL anyway for a kernel offering the features > everyone has come to expect. As means of example, I'll bet there's > no (or at least very few) distros that ship a kernel with > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled.
i don't see why we can't audit EXPERIMENTAL users and try to clarify which ones are really needed over time though - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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