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SubjectRe: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Grant Coady wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:14:22 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> > how about a concerted effort to remove inappropriate EXPERIMENTAL
> >dependencies from the Kconfig files? there must be a truckload of
> >stuff that has long since matured beyond EXPERIMENTAL status that is
> >still tagged that way.
>
> I sent a patch to remove EXPERIMENTAL on a three year old driver
> couple months ago, it got Acked by maintainer, hwmon/adm9240. But I
> dunno if the patch is queued somewhere or lost.

at last count, there were 437 config selections that were tagged as
EXPERIMENTAL. i find it hard to believe that there's that much
legitimately experimental content in the source tree. surely *some*
of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.

rday
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