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

Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31T21:13:54Z

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.

rday
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