Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:35:32 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL |
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> So smbfs is still considered rock solid while no serious distribution > would be crazy enough to ship the EXPERIMENTAL NFSv4 support to their > customers?
Thats a different problem. The kernel as I've said many times has no proper process for
- removing expired/missing maintainers - handling stuff that decays - removing dead documentation - removing dead drivers and ports
Although you've certainly started on fixing much of that.
> I'm not claiming that all EXPERIMENTAL tags were wrong [1], but many > were wrong.
So why not fix the wrong tags, and mark smbfs obsolete ?
> Plus the fact that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL controlled so many different > things with one switch that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n .config's are really > rare.
Agreed
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