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

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Date:	Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:44:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	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:

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0100 Simon Arlott wrote:

> > What about something like this? I'm not sure if the addition to
> > sym_init is desirable... I also had to prefix _ to the name for
> > now otherwise it conflicts badly with the current symbols. It
> > probably should stop "depends on _BROKEN" etc. too.
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> (sorry for the delay)
>
> I like this patch very much... I just can't get it to build (on
> 2.6.23-rc4).

i got a patch from simon a while back, and it failed with
"shift/reduce" conflicts.  is that what you're seeing?

> >  	while (1) {
> >  		printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text);
> > +		switch (sym->maturity) {
> > +		case M_EXPERIMENTAL:
> > +			printf("(EXPERIMENTAL) ");
> > +			break;
> > +		case M_DEPRECATED:
> > +			printf("(DEPRECATED) ");
> > +			break;
> > +		case M_OBSOLETE:
> > +			printf("(OBSOLETE) ");
> > +			break;
> > +		case M_BROKEN:
> > +			printf("(BROKEN) ");
> > +			break;
> > +		default:
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> >  		if (sym->name)
> >  			printf("(%s) ", sym->name);
> >  		type = sym_get_type(sym);

for now, simon, why not just reduce this to supporting only DEPRECATED
and OBSOLETE so that it can be at least tested as "proof of concept?"

rday
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