From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755120AbZKNQyf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:54:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754908AbZKNQye (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:54:34 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:63266 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754504AbZKNQyd (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:54:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xixU9wK0oRGyzLJvg0ZF4WCkCO/xJ88yYL2Z68hGyPhHhm90RTDMCxiKhUkBq8J7r1 o5tiIrXsyTn3PFNdQ2CORWucMGELXTbJCZKICmEPaSkUOUSJMBe6MEP8tZT62c22A7OA GXfV4lOvGK2QsnlF78vrQm/m615cnv9DiClOE= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: prepare for removal of experimental tag on PATA drivers Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:53:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.5-96.fc12.x86_64; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200911141537.19068.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4AFED444.5020201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AFED444.5020201@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200911141753.37935.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 14 November 2009 17:01:08 Robert Hancock wrote: > On 11/14/2009 08:37 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Push experimental tags to host drivers that still need it so we can > > remove the "global" experimental tag for PATA drivers. > > > > I hear that some issues are being worked on but the patch reflects > > the current situation and we can trivially update status of affected > > host drivers after new fixes are merged. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > I don't think that the problems you've mentioned fit the definition of > the EXPERIMENTAL tag - it means that the driver isn't likely suitable I guess you've read bugzillas so if you still think that EXPERIMENTAL is not justified at least for some drivers than we really have nothing to talk about anymore.. > for general use. Given that those drivers are probably used by > significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions I > don't think this is likely to be the case. There may be bugs but > non-experimental does not imply bug free. Hardly a technical argument. You know that staging drivers are successfully used by "significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions"? :) zbr explained the problem with the kernel development process with more class than I would ever be able to so I will just save everybody's time.. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz