Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

Alan Cox
2008-01-01T17:44:18Z

> So smbfs is still considered rock solid while no serious distribution
> would be crazy enough to ship the EXPERIMENTAL NFSv4 support to their
> customers?

Thats a different problem. The kernel as I've said many times has no
proper process for

- removing expired/missing maintainers
- handling stuff that decays
- removing dead documentation
- removing dead drivers and ports

Although you've certainly started on fixing much of that.

> I'm not claiming that all EXPERIMENTAL tags were wrong [1], but many
> were wrong.

So why not fix the wrong tags, and mark smbfs obsolete ?

> Plus the fact that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL controlled so many different
> things with one switch that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n .config's are really
> rare.

Agreed