Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:40:12 -0600 |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
> There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and > what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the > EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.
Well I do know at least some of the things that depend on experimental are legitimate.
I wonder if the problem is that we don't police experimental well enough.
> Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit > number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.
I can see a distribution carefully cherry picking things, that the have an intimate knowledge about out of experimental but it doesn't sound right for taking things out of EXPERIMENTAL to be routine.
I know I'm a little slow about getting around to it but when ever I have a feature that isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore I remove the tag.
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