From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756073AbYAASOY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:14:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754248AbYAASOQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:14:16 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:62714 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753482AbYAASOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:14:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=xMBzZVQ3t0gKukgbXq5F9GfOlvgpzWIaqUnW6PsK01JiVF1K4XCF2Wot5mhujCulXfFmzZ+WQO5TTIpX742Xp6Gyx/7J1FEZm9gPLS75f6322Td4kbyZU8vVKKoCJPPKlBhYMVZToJE2ECNnVx6LGT1P21FeW17TGlPw8i5upwQ= Message-ID: <9e4733910801011014y7ae8c84ch439c56fdb1c4f303@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:14:13 -0500 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080101173532.1db4019f@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> <20080101173532.1db4019f@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/1/08, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is way to coarse. I always need to turn it on and then it loses any value. Why not encode the drivers status into the driver name so that is is obvious when you are configuring the kernel? Like this for a driver name: Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support (experimental) Some drivers are already do this: Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL) Now the status is obvious on an item by item basis. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com