linux-kernel - Re: PM_TRACE is no longer experimental

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Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:34:17 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Trivial patch monkey <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: PM_TRACE is no longer experimental

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:11:36PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
 > On 14.08.2008 17:18 Pavel Machek wrote:
 > > PM_TRACE is stable for quite long. I don't think it needs to depend on
 > > experimental.
 > 
 > It might be stable, but its effect of trashing the RTC makes it unsuitable
 > for non-experimental use. Therefore I'd prefer the dependency be kept.

It only does that if you boot with command line options to enable it.
Besides, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL was always about code maturity, not a
safety net for people who don't read the descriptions.

Pavels change makes sense to me.

	Dave

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