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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091938210.19500@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:38:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make profiling uniformly non-menu and non-EXPERIMENTAL. On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 2) given how long profiling has been around, it's just as pointless to > > keep categorizing it as EXPERIMENTAL, so drop all EXPERIMENTAL labels > > and dependencies. > > Only because something has been around for a while, even for years, > it doesn't automatically loose "experimental" status. It does when > it has been extensively and successfully debugged, verified and > tested, and no reservations regarding run-time stability or > userspace interface stability remain. Is this true for these > profiling options? i have no idea. that's why i listed the patch as "RFC". i was hoping to get some feedback. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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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