Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

Randy Dunlap
2007-08-31T21:26:43Z

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > What I like about the patch is that it associates some kconfig
> > symbol with prompt strings, so that we don't have to edit
> > "(EXPERIMENTAL)" all the darn time (e.g.).
> >
> > I'd be quite happy with calling it "status" rather than "maturity",
> > and with being able to use multiple of the status tags at one time,
> > such as
> >
> > config FOO
> > depends on BAR
> > status OBSOLETE BROKEN
>
> grrrrrrrr ... i already made my point in my earlier post. i'd
> really, really like it if *this* attribute remained as "maturity". an
> entirely *separate* attribute could be defined as a feature "status",
> which would be entirely orthogonal to maturity level, so that the
> above would be written as
>
> maturity OBSOLETE
> status BROKEN
>
> there's a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one*
> value for any attribute. that is, in terms of maturity, a feature
> could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't***
> be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that
> flexibility is to descend into absurdity.

If Simon (or anyone else) continues to work on it, I'll leave this
decision up to them...

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~Randy
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