Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG. | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:16 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:12 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 07/14/2009 04:29 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:38 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >> On 07/13/2009 10:43 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes: > >>> Dammit, I messed up here sending this patch. I've just edited the > >>> subject line and re-sent it with a bit more description. I think this > >>> patch is perfectly good to go into 2.6.31 right now, esp since it's > >>> not changing code, just whether the code is turned on by default from > >>> now on. > >>> > >> I would like it if you'd also CC stable@kernel.org on this patch. As this > >> condition is already true for distros in the field. > > > > The stable tree is for bug *fixes*. Moving an option out from under > > experimental is basically an enhancement, even if it could be argued it > > should have been done long ago. > > > > wouldn't you consider it a bug if a low-level plumbing like Udev is shipped > with hard dependency on it?
Sure .. file a bug with udev ...
The point is that if you use a feature marked "Experimental, do not use" it's not a bug in the provider if you use it.
Arguably, all this really shows is that the distros ignore EXPERIMENTAL, so it's not really serving a useful purpose in the kernel.
> if Udev was part of Kconfig it would have a "depend" on bsg. But because > it's a different product it can only rely on defaults?
James
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