From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932250AbXGRUhn (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:37:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755824AbXGRUhc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:37:32 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:45082 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925AbXGRUhb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:37:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:12 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Gabriel C , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus Message-Id: <20070718134012.cde2f956.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: References: <469E75AA.7040109@pimpmylinux.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > > > Everything 'depends on' EXPERIMENTAL should be marked as such, > > visible in the menus. > > rather than add all that extraneous dreck to the Kconfig files, i > *really* wish folks would give serious thought to my earlier > suggestion about a "maturity level" attribute that could be used to > not only add a parenthesized maturity level during display, but could > also be used to activate/deactivate entire levels in one operation. > > there's no point adding all that redundant content when it can all be > done automatically. I like it. Are there any kconfig patches to support this plan? --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***