Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG.

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:

James> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:38 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 07/13/2009 10:43 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>> >>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
>> > 
>> > Dammit, I messed up here sending this patch.  I've just edited the
>> > subject line and re-sent it with a bit more description.  I think this
>> > patch is perfectly good to go into 2.6.31 right now, esp since it's
>> > not changing code, just whether the code is turned on by default from
>> > now on.
>> > 
>> 
>> I would like it if you'd also CC stable@kernel.org on this patch. As this
>> condition is already true for distros in the field.

James> The stable tree is for bug *fixes*.  Moving an option out from
James> under experimental is basically an enhancement, even if it
James> could be argued it should have been done long ago.

I'm not so sure I agree with this, since this feature is used by UDEV
and has been enabled by default on a bunch of distros for ages (as I'm
told, personally I haven't confirmed this).

But if you object to stable back porting, what are you feelings on
this change for 2.6.31-rc* now?  Do you think it needs to be held off
and that it's too late to make this change?

Thanks,
John