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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let NET_CLS_ACT no longer depend on	EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:36:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4409FA66.7010802@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141498341.5185.32.camel@localhost.localdomain>

jamal wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-03 at 17:56 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>>This option should IMHO no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL.
>>>
>>
>>Yesterday I managed to crash my machine playing around with tc actions
>>within minutes. I haven't looked into it yet, but it seems it still
>>needs more testing.
> 
> 
> Simple: Fix the bug and submit a patch. If you cant find the cause post
> what you are doing. 

I'll fix it.

> What is the metric for going from experimental to non-experimental?
> I surely hope it doesnt come to some irrational reasoning like
> "Patrick found a bug"[1]. 

I think a sane metric is "opinion of people who know the code". But
I don't care much, I don't think many people care whether something
is maked experimental or not.

> [1]If you used half of that logic on netfilter it would still be
> experimental or rather should be demoted to experimental.

I'll take that as a compliment :)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-04 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-04 16:07 [RFC: 2.6 patch] let NET_CLS_ACT no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL Adrian Bunk
2006-03-04 16:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-03-04 18:52   ` jamal
2006-03-04 20:36     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-03-10 11:04     ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-12 17:56 Adrian Bunk

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