Re: [PATCH] libata: prepare for removal of experimental tag on PATA drivers

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

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<bzolnier@gmail.com>

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 
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.