Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:17:51 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL |
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:48:09 +0200 > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > > This patch removes the EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on > > EXPERIMENTAL since they are pointless. > > NAK > > Experimental is an important guide to driver and code quality. >...
History has shown that EXPERIMENTAL tags in many areas of the kernel have not been maintained in a way that they would be usable as a guide.
And as soon as you need _one_ driver or feature depending on EXPERIMENTAL, you anyway lose all benefits it might have had.
The latter is the point where it makes sense if a user or distribution e.g. enables CONFIG_ATA_EXPERIMENTAL for getting all hardware supported but not CONFIG_CRYPTO_EXPERIMENTAL because he doesn't want to use (resp. support usage of) experimental cryptographic algorithm implementations.
> > This patch has been sent on: > > 11 Dec 2007 > > 25 Nov 2007 > > 17 Nov 2007 > > So why not drop it instead. It clearly has no consensus
That's not about consensus, it's more that the number of submissions required until Andrew includes a patch into -mm seems to be related to the number of files touched...
cu Adrian
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