From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let NET_CLS_ACT no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:36:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4409FA66.7010802@trash.net> References: <20060304160755.GB9295@stusta.de> <4409C6BA.60803@trash.net> <1141498341.5185.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1141498341.5185.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-03 at 17:56 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>>This option should IMHO no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL. >>> >> >>Yesterday I managed to crash my machine playing around with tc actions >>within minutes. I haven't looked into it yet, but it seems it still >>needs more testing. > > > Simple: Fix the bug and submit a patch. If you cant find the cause post > what you are doing. I'll fix it. > What is the metric for going from experimental to non-experimental? > I surely hope it doesnt come to some irrational reasoning like > "Patrick found a bug"[1]. I think a sane metric is "opinion of people who know the code". But I don't care much, I don't think many people care whether something is maked experimental or not. > [1]If you used half of that logic on netfilter it would still be > experimental or rather should be demoted to experimental. I'll take that as a compliment :)