From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751551AbWIFUQN (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:16:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751556AbWIFUQN (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:16:13 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:8836 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751551AbWIFUQM (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:16:12 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec References: <200609062122.14971.ak@suse.de> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:15:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200609062122.14971.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:22:14 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen writes: > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 18:55, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all >> of the serious problems have been worked through. So it >> is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark. >> > > Hmm, I personally have some doubts it is really not experimental > (not because of the kexec code itself, but because of all the other drivers > that still break) That is a reasonable viewpoint. Although by that a lot more of the kernel deserves to be marked experimental. On the perverse side of the sentiment taking off experimental may increase our number of testers and get the bugs fixed faster :) > But applied for now. Thanks. Eric