From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kir@swsoft.com, containers@lists.osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
kir@openvz.org, Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2)
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071027040346.GQ30533@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18x5pte18.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>...
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>...
There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and
what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the
EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.
Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit
number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.
> Eric
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-27 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CBC546DD07068244AEC110EFEDA58B7235893F@excite.int.sw-soft.com>
2007-10-26 21:59 ` [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 0:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-27 1:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 2:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-27 2:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-27 3:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 4:03 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-10-27 4:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 5:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-27 4:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-27 7:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-29 18:05 ` Cedric Le Goater
2007-10-29 19:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-28 16:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-28 17:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-28 18:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-29 10:13 ` Cedric Le Goater
2007-10-29 18:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 22:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
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