From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:26:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4633AE13.2060300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4633ACE4.50004@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
I wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> there's stuff marked
>> "EXPERIMENTAL" that appears to have been in the kernel for years.
>
> It is sometimes true for years, although that's not the goal for
> software in mainline.
Because EXPERIMENTAL does not mean "is subject to currently ongoing
experiments" but rather "is unfinished code which is known to work
incorrectly sometimes".
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 13:25 Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-28 16:52 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-28 18:05 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-28 20:21 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-28 20:26 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-04-28 21:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-28 22:28 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-28 23:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-29 0:29 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-28 23:38 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-29 0:22 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-29 6:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-28 23:21 ` Tilman Schmidt
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