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Message-ID: <477C138B.6080803@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:43:23 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> CC: sct@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN Adrian Bunk wrote: > Most people and all distributions use CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y simply > because too many options (including options required for hardware > support) depend on it. > > Compare e.g.: > - "Marvell SATA support (HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL)" > - "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > - "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" tristate "Snapshot target (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL tristate "Mirror target (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL ... It does seem that it might be a good goal to revisit options marked EXPERIMENTAL, and see if they still should be marked as such, rather than removing the option altogether. init/Kconfig describes things in "EXPERIMENTAL" as "alpha-test" - I bet there are a few things which have moved beyond this, but are still marked as such. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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