From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make profiling uniformly non-menu and non-EXPERIMENTAL.
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:38:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091938210.19500@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4692C031.1090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 2) given how long profiling has been around, it's just as pointless to
> > keep categorizing it as EXPERIMENTAL, so drop all EXPERIMENTAL labels
> > and dependencies.
>
> Only because something has been around for a while, even for years,
> it doesn't automatically loose "experimental" status. It does when
> it has been extensively and successfully debugged, verified and
> tested, and no reservations regarding run-time stability or
> userspace interface stability remain. Is this true for these
> profiling options?
i have no idea. that's why i listed the patch as "RFC". i was hoping
to get some feedback.
rday
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2007-07-09 8:05 Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-09 23:09 ` Stefan Richter
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