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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:05:53 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:53:49 +0100 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 15:58, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:41 -0800 > > Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote: > >> > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a > >> > bit over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' > >> > option is used. > >> > >> Why? > > > > because the convention is that we use "default y" only for those > > things that used to be on, and are now turned into a config option. > > Oh, I never heard of such a convention. Sure, we can remove that "y", > if this is the way it should be used, not be used. For example in (this is just the first one google found, there's been a bunch of discussion at various times) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706458 Linus was rather explicit: The rule of thumb should be: NO NEW FEATURES SHOULD _EVER_ DEFAULT TO 'ON'! -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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