Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:43:23 -0600 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > Most people and all distributions use CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y simply > because too many options (including options required for hardware > support) depend on it. > > Compare e.g.: > - "Marvell SATA support (HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL)" > - "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > - "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
tristate "Snapshot target (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
tristate "Mirror target (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
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It does seem that it might be a good goal to revisit options marked EXPERIMENTAL, and see if they still should be marked as such, rather than removing the option altogether.
init/Kconfig describes things in "EXPERIMENTAL" as "alpha-test" - I bet there are a few things which have moved beyond this, but are still marked as such.
-Eric
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