From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760698AbXGIXlR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758861AbXGIXlE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:41:04 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:56871 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758873AbXGIXlD (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:41:03 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:38:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Stefan Richter cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make profiling uniformly non-menu and non-EXPERIMENTAL. In-Reply-To: <4692C031.1090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: References: <4692C031.1090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================