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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4889615D.9020706@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724211141.4fa557ca@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> legitimately experimental content in the source tree.  surely *some*
>> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> 
> What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?

Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24 15:14 how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"? Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 18:29 ` Grant Coady
2008-07-24 20:06   ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 20:09     ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-24 20:10       ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-24 20:11     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-25  5:15       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-07-25 10:05         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-25 10:41         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-25 12:08       ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-25 12:51     ` Stefan Richter

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