Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:24:49 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) |
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:59:29PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir@swsoft.com> writes: > > > Eric, > > > > Could you please hold off the horses a bit and wait till Pavel Emelyanov > > returns? It means next Monday; he's currently at a conference whose organisers > > don't provide internet access. > > When we decided to go top down (i.e. user interface first) instead of > bottom up with the pid namespace implementation it was my > understanding that we had agreed we would make the pid namespaces > depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL so that we wouldn't be stuck forever > supporting early ABI mistakes. >...
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is a weak hint that some code might not (yet) be in a perfect state, but it does not have any semantics regarding userspace ABIs.
A dependency on BROKEN seems more appropriate.
> Eric
cu Adrian
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