From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:24:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20071027002448.GH30533@stusta.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Kir Kolyshkin , containers@lists.osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kir@openvz.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:59:29PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Kir Kolyshkin" writes: > > > Eric, > > > > Could you please hold off the horses a bit and wait till Pavel Emelyanov > > returns? It means next Monday; he's currently at a conference whose organisers > > don't provide internet access. > > When we decided to go top down (i.e. user interface first) instead of > bottom up with the pid namespace implementation it was my > understanding that we had agreed we would make the pid namespaces > depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL so that we wouldn't be stuck forever > supporting early ABI mistakes. >... CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is a weak hint that some code might not (yet) be in a perfect state, but it does not have any semantics regarding userspace ABIs. A dependency on BROKEN seems more appropriate. > Eric cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed