linux-kernel - Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

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Message-ID: <46D9306C.9040301@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:27:08 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> you take advantage of that?  you'd have to add a new
> structure to "make config" along the following lines:
> 
>   Along with maturity-untagged features, what other maturity levels
>   would you like to see and be able to select?

Most (all?) users and presumably most distributors/packagers don't
decide this globally.  They look at a feature and decide, based on their
need for this feature, whether they enable or disable it, whether they
look into alternative hardware/drivers/apps, whether they get in touch
with the maintainer.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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