From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: mark tests EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:29:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319977792.2126.30.camel@koala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111029204037.GB26851@pengutronix.de>
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 22:40 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> > > index 4be8373..81d9b92 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> > > @@ -27,12 +27,15 @@ config MTD_DEBUG_VERBOSE
> > >
> > > config MTD_TESTS
> > > tristate "MTD tests support"
> > > - depends on m
> > > + depends on m && EXPERIMENTAL
> >
> > I am OK with this close, but I am not sure about the EXPERIMENTAL. I
> > though this is used for the code which is considered to be "not ready"
> > for real use, while the tests work well.
>
> Well, yeah, it is not perfect, but the closest I could come up with
> (EXPERT is a lot worse). My reasoning went a bit in the direction of
> "you usually need the tests for experimental drivers".
I see, but I think that this is not what EXPERIMENTAL mean. It is better
to add "(DANGEROUS)" to the title as it is recommended in
Documentation/CodyngStyle.
Artem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-30 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-25 9:09 [PATCH 1/2] mtd: tests: don't use mtd0 as a default Wolfram Sang
2011-10-25 9:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: mark tests EXPERIMENTAL Wolfram Sang
2011-10-29 20:30 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-29 20:40 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-10-30 12:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-10-30 16:28 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] mtd: tests: annotate as DANGEROUS in Kconfig Wolfram Sang
2011-10-30 20:34 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-30 20:37 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-10-31 17:00 ` Brian Norris
2011-11-08 20:35 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-25 11:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: tests: don't use mtd0 as a default Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-29 20:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-29 20:28 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-10-29 20:35 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-29 20:56 ` [PATCH V2 " Wolfram Sang
2011-10-29 21:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-29 22:11 ` [PATCH V3 " Wolfram Sang
2011-10-30 12:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-30 12:24 ` [PATCH V2 " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-11-02 22:11 ` [PATCH " Roland Kletzing
2011-10-29 20:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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