Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Is it "stable" or "experimental"? | Date | 19 Jun 1996 01:13:04 GMT |
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Followup to: <199606151531.LAA01065@panix3.panix.com> By author: Harvey Fishman <fishman@panix.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If 2.0 is stable, why does the make config script still have a question > about experimental drivers? If this is REALLY stable, should there be any > experimental drivers in the configuration? Or am I missing something very > basic? >
Yes. 2.0 is by definition only production level if you disable all experimental drivers. The experimental drivers are included in the kernel tree as a convenience to driver authors and users.
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