Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:06:07 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL |
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* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> [...] As the alternative is > > CONFIG_ATA_EXPERIMENTAL, CONFIG_NET_EXPERIMENTAL, > CONFIG_VIDEO_EXPERIMENTAL, ... all being added by developers
yeah, i'd prefer that. People might be willing to enable an experimental video driver but not an experimental ATA driver. This global-scope "all or nothing" CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is totally pointless and _no_ distro uses it in practice.
If it's a pure label via which you want to document things as experimental then i'd agree with adding the "Warning: experimental code" to the help section of all the affected Kconfig entries (that way people would be more likely to actually read that label.)
but i think your suggestion of per-subsystem and/or per-driver quality levels is superior to that.
Ingo
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