From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755033AbZKNQBK (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:01:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753691AbZKNQBG (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:01:06 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:35278 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752562AbZKNQBF (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:01:05 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CV0th7Fau6EDRRMh7vRtqBf8za13NYTaJ/nRVSzm8FH9ccho/oOo84CWh0fhy9z6wG w7cDawBpHrnVhe1Vi2xDgIZjTpy2/sDCOJGvkFOKl/lMwzt9hlRp0neUulYo1Iga9LMQ nrk7BQSVJBq+bn6Z0vBtsepVdssl2bvYYXQcw= Message-ID: <4AFED444.5020201@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:01:08 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: prepare for removal of experimental tag on PATA drivers References: <200911141537.19068.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911141537.19068.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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.