From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:34:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071127043411.GF15764@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20547.1196135084@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:44:44PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> I suspect that given the "once it escapes, it's cast in stone" view we take
> towards user-visible API/etc, there isn't much *real* room for an
> 'EXPERIMENTAL' flag anymore. Most of the usage should probably be confined to
> individual drivers, where all we should need is a 'default n' and suitable
> warning verbiage in the Kconfig file warning about the driver eating your
> filesystems and small animals for breakfast.
Potential corruptors are usually flagged with (DANGEROUS) in the text,
(One may argue that they shouldn't have escaped -mm)
> We certainly shouldn't have
> one big flag for *all* in-progress drivers - I don't need to accidentally
> enable a busticated ethernet driver because I want a USB widget.
So no ethernet driver at all is better than a broken but mostly working one?
Again if it isn't mostly working, it shouldn't have escaped -mm
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-25 16:16 [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Adrian Bunk
2007-11-26 12:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-26 18:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-27 3:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-27 4:34 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-11-27 6:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-28 12:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-11 22:21 Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 13:48 Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 14:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 15:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 16:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 16:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 18:14 ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-02 0:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 14:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 14:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-01 15:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 18:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-10 22:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-11 10:41 ` Paul Mundt
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