From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:41:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216982515.17267.108.camel@spike.firmix.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4889615D.9020706@nortel.com>
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:15 -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree. surely *some*
> >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> >
> > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?
>
> Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?
Or until death. E.g. "devfs" went directly from "experimental" to
"obsolete".
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 15:14 Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 18:29 ` Grant Coady
2008-07-24 20:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 20:09 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-24 20:10 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 20:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-25 5:15 ` Chris Friesen
2008-07-25 10:05 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-25 10:41 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2008-07-25 12:08 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-25 12:51 ` Stefan Richter
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