linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:44:44 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:27:07 GMT, Pavel Machek said:

> I don't think this is good idea. But perhaps 'experimental' should be
> removed from stuff that is really stable these days, like SATA?

I suspect that given the "once it escapes, it's cast in stone" view we take
towards user-visible API/etc, there isn't much *real* room for an
'EXPERIMENTAL' flag anymore.  Most of the usage should probably be confined to
individual drivers, where all we should need is a 'default n' and suitable
warning verbiage in the Kconfig file warning about the driver eating your
filesystems and small animals for breakfast.  We certainly shouldn't have
one big flag for *all* in-progress drivers - I don't need to accidentally
enable a busticated ethernet driver because I want a USB widget.  And if
you're worried about people accidentally enabling it, then *each driver*
should have a 'Do you really mean it?' flag with *opposite* sense (so
that 'make allyesconfig' doesn't turn it on by accident).

Anything bigger than that, we probably want to redefine 'experimental'
as "it doesn't escape from -mm to mainline till it's ready".

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