From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: prepare for removal of experimental tag on PATA drivers Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:53:37 +0100 Message-ID: <200911141753.37935.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200911141537.19068.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4AFED444.5020201@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:63266 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754504AbZKNQyd (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:54:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AFED444.5020201@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 14 November 2009 17:01:08 Robert Hancock wrote: > On 11/14/2009 08:37 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Push experimental tags to host drivers that still need it so we can > > remove the "global" experimental tag for PATA drivers. > > > > I hear that some issues are being worked on but the patch reflects > > the current situation and we can trivially update status of affected > > host drivers after new fixes are merged. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > I don't think that the problems you've mentioned fit the definition of > the EXPERIMENTAL tag - it means that the driver isn't likely suitable I guess you've read bugzillas so if you still think that EXPERIMENTAL is not justified at least for some drivers than we really have nothing to talk about anymore.. > for general use. Given that those drivers are probably used by > significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions I > don't think this is likely to be the case. There may be bugs but > non-experimental does not imply bug free. Hardly a technical argument. You know that staging drivers are successfully used by "significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions"? :) zbr explained the problem with the kernel development process with more class than I would ever be able to so I will just save everybody's time.. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz