From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Snook Subject: [PATCH 0/2] atl1: Introduce CONFIG_ATL1_EXPERIMENTAL Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:41:32 -0400 Message-ID: <46E1E1AC.5030801@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: atl1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jay Cliburn , Chris Snook , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50155 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323AbXIGXlp (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:41:45 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org The atl1 driver is currently marked EXPERIMENTAL, because a few supposedly performance-enhancing features still have problems. When these features are disabled, the driver is completely stable, fully functional, and performs well. Patch 1/2 Creates the kconfig option CONFIG_ATL1_EXPERIMENTAL, and removes the EXPERIMENTAL designation from CONFIG_ATL1 Patch 2/2 Wraps some currently-disabled features in #ifdef CONFIG_ATL1_EXPERIMENTAL, so developers and testers can play with these features more easily, and distributions will still get a fast, stable driver with existing .config files. We'll also be using this to wrap around various new features we'll be experimenting with in coming months. Instead of using a half dozen different kconfig options for each of them, like some drivers do, we'll just use this, and make sure things are safe for everyone before we take them out of the experimental wrapper. -- Chris