From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:07:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080101160708.5bb5cc2a@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080101151751.GW2360@does.not.exist>
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:17:51 +0200
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:48:09 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch removes the EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on
> > > EXPERIMENTAL since they are pointless.
> >
> > NAK
> >
> > Experimental is an important guide to driver and code quality.
> >...
>
> History has shown that EXPERIMENTAL tags in many areas of the kernel
> have not been maintained in a way that they would be usable as a guide.
Repeatedly posting crud does not make it right. As far as I can see the
tags are pretty honest for the most part - some have been experimental
for ten years but the 3c507 driver *has* always been a beta grade driver.
> And as soon as you need _one_ driver or feature depending on
>> That's not about consensus,
It should be.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-01 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-01 13:48 Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 14:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 15:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 16:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-01-01 16:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 18:14 ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-02 0:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 14:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 14:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 15:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 18:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-10 22:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-11 10:41 ` Paul Mundt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-11 22:21 Adrian Bunk
2007-11-25 16:16 Adrian Bunk
2007-11-26 12:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-26 18:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-27 3:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-27 4:34 ` Dave Jones
2007-11-27 6:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-28 12:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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