Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:06:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"? |
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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.
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