From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752717Ab0AWWoQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:44:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752413Ab0AWWoO (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:44:14 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:65019 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752592Ab0AWWoN (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:44:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:43:56 -0800 (PST) From: Christian Kujau To: Arjan van de Ven cc: LKML , dhowells@redhat.com, adkulkar@umail.iu.edu Subject: Re: NFS_FSCACHE still depends on EXPERIMENTAL? In-Reply-To: <20100123143040.49f47e0d@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20100123143040.49f47e0d@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+P5oPEvyDXtguAEcuaSAuVIc26aVxyfVyUc3c cBPuyfJuN3qKdymkcesivU4PLqLItjgZOploPV8w4Q3GjfMaVU qbeAoc09GUehD2Iv6qGgg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 at 14:30, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > since the EXPERIMENTAL flag more or less means nothing, the > "it is marked with the flag so we don't do it" is reasoning based on > more or less nothing... Understood, but...if EXPERIMENTAL "more or less means nothing" (is this a general consensus?), why is the flag still used at all? IOW, would a patch removing all EXPERIMENTAL flags from all(!) options be accepted? Thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #160: non-redundant fan failure