From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762978AbXGTMN7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:13:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755146AbXGTMNm (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:13:42 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:37909 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753260AbXGTMNk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:13:40 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:11:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Gabriel C cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IP_VS should depend on EXPERIMENTAL ? In-Reply-To: <46A0A01A.7030403@googlemail.com> Message-ID: References: <46A0A01A.7030403@googlemail.com> 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 as a short followup to my previous post, at the *very least*, a cleanup that could be done now is to find all entries which have an actual dependency on "EXPERIMENTAL" but don't advertise themselves as such: ... config MA600_DONGLE tristate "Mobile Action MA600 dongle" depends on IRTTY_SIR && DONGLE && IRDA && EXPERIMENTAL ... and determine which of those should have the dependency on "EXPERIMENTAL" removed. no, don't go adding "(EXPERIMENTAL)" to the prompt -- just deal with *only* those for which the dependency is clearly out of date and not relevant anymore, and delete it. that would be, at least, a place to start. and, yes, there's piles of potential (net/ipv4/Kconfig): config TCP_CONG_HSTCP tristate "High Speed TCP" depends on EXPERIMENTAL ... config TCP_CONG_HYBLA tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm" depends on EXPERIMENTAL ... config TCP_CONG_VEGAS tristate "TCP Vegas" depends on EXPERIMENTAL ... ... etc etc ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================