Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:37:42 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default |
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:05:53PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:53:49 +0100 > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 15:58, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:41 -0800 > > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > >> > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a > > >> > bit over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' > > >> > option is used. > > >> > > >> Why? > > > > > > because the convention is that we use "default y" only for those > > > things that used to be on, and are now turned into a config option. > > > > Oh, I never heard of such a convention. Sure, we can remove that "y", > > if this is the way it should be used, not be used. > > For example in (this is just the first one google found, there's been a > bunch of discussion at various times) > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706458 > > Linus was rather explicit: > > The rule of thumb should be: > > NO NEW FEATURES SHOULD _EVER_ DEFAULT TO 'ON'!
But this is not a "new" feature, it's been around for 6+ months by the time it hits a release. Does this imply that we can never change anything to 'on' in the Kconfig files?
thanks,
greg k-h
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