Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:17:24 +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 10:40:12PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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.
Part of the picture might be that code that was included into the kernel usually is in a state that it works at least most time for most of the people.
And when you think about distributions, it's hard to imagine why a distribution should not enable more or less all EXPERIMENTAL device drivers - an EXPERIMENTAL driver is much better than no driver for this hardware at all.
> Eric
cu Adrian
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