From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752016AbXD1U13 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:27:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752246AbXD1U13 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:27:29 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60511 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbXD1U11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:27:27 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4633AE13.2060300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:26:59 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE References: <46337BD2.7000701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4633ACE4.50004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4633ACE4.50004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -=====-=-=== -=-- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/