netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	sam@...nborg.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Gabriel C <crazy@...pmylinux.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> What I like about the patch is that it associates some kconfig
> symbol with prompt strings, so that we don't have to edit
> "(EXPERIMENTAL)" all the darn time (e.g.).
>
> I'd be quite happy with calling it "status" rather than "maturity",
> and with being able to use multiple of the status tags at one time,
> such as
>
> 	config FOO
> 	depends on BAR
> 	status OBSOLETE BROKEN

grrrrrrrr ... i already made my point in my earlier post.  i'd
really, really like it if *this* attribute remained as "maturity".  an
entirely *separate* attribute could be defined as a feature "status",
which would be entirely orthogonal to maturity level, so that the
above would be written as

	maturity OBSOLETE
	status BROKEN

there's a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one*
value for any attribute.  that is, in terms of maturity, a feature
could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE.  it ***can't***
be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE.  to allow that
flexibility is to descend into absurdity.

rday
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