From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:09:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20070718210903.GM3801@stusta.de> References: <469E75AA.7040109@pimpmylinux.org> <20070718134012.cde2f956.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <469E7BE1.6090401@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Gabriel C , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Robert P. J. Day" Return-path: Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:37714 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934263AbXGRVJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:09:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:51:33PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > there's no point adding all that redundant content when it can all be > > > > done automatically. > > > > > > I like it. Are there any kconfig patches to support this plan? > > > > Speaking specifically to adding 'EXPERIMENTAL', I distinctly > > remember at some point in the past the config system was smart > > enough to print " (EXPERIMENTAL)" if that entry depended on > > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. > > > > We should head in that direction. > > there's one point i want to re-iterate. i'd prefer to see > EXPERIMENTAL stop being a dependency, as in: > > depends on SNAFU && FUBAR && EXPERIMENTAL > > "EXPERIMENTAL" is not a dependency in the true sense of the word -- it > is more of an attribute, and i think it would far more sense to see > entries like: > > depends on SNAFU && FUBAR > maturity EXPERIMENTAL Plus some special case in the kconfig code that you can somewhere select the maturity levels you want to use (currently it's a normal option kconfig doesn't have to know anything about). Remind me, would there be any big advantage after such a change besides being able to automatically print " (EXPERIMENTAL)" at the end of the prompt? > sure, it's more work, but i think the cost is worth it in terms of > flexibility (particularly if *i'm* not the one doing the work. :-) If you are not doing it, noone might do it. And discusing improvements noone will implement is somehow pointless... > rday 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