From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
levon@movementarian.org, phil.el@wanadoo.fr,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Is OPROFILE actively maintained?
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 13:56:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060521205644.GA3420@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060521204947.GM8250@redhat.com>
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Part of the problem with EXPERIMENTAL is that it's been taken
> to mean all sorts of things over the years
yes
> from "this isn't quite ready, but works"
ok for -mm perhaps, not mainline
> to "if you enable this, you're a lunatic".
suitable for neither -mm not mainline
> It's meant that pretty much everyone has to enable
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL anyway for a kernel offering the features
> everyone has come to expect. As means of example, I'll bet there's
> no (or at least very few) distros that ship a kernel with
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled.
i don't see why we can't audit EXPERIMENTAL users and try to clarify
which ones are really needed over time though
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-21 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-20 2:53 [PATCH] i386 Don't conside oprofile EXPERIMENTAL anymore Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 19:49 ` Is OPROFILE actively maintained? Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 19:57 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-21 20:17 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 20:49 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-21 20:56 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2006-05-21 20:25 ` John Levon
2006-05-22 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-22 15:15 ` John Levon
2006-05-22 17:50 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-22 18:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-22 15:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
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