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SubjectRe: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN
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

...

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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