From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756262AbYAARoS (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:44:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754921AbYAARoJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:44:09 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:56580 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754607AbYAARoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:44:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:35:32 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Message-ID: <20080101173532.1db4019f@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20080101163337.GX2360@does.not.exist> References: <20080101134809.GK2360@does.not.exist> <20080101142344.769f16c7@the-village.bc.nu> <20080101151751.GW2360@does.not.exist> <20080101160708.5bb5cc2a@the-village.bc.nu> <20080101163337.GX2360@does.not.exist> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So smbfs is still considered rock solid while no serious distribution > would be crazy enough to ship the EXPERIMENTAL NFSv4 support to their > customers? Thats a different problem. The kernel as I've said many times has no proper process for - removing expired/missing maintainers - handling stuff that decays - removing dead documentation - removing dead drivers and ports Although you've certainly started on fixing much of that. > I'm not claiming that all EXPERIMENTAL tags were wrong [1], but many > were wrong. So why not fix the wrong tags, and mark smbfs obsolete ? > Plus the fact that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL controlled so many different > things with one switch that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n .config's are really > rare. Agreed