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

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Message-ID: <46D94252.3000505@garzik.org>
Date:	Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:43:30 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Stefan Richter wrote:
> But I can state requirements for the 'experimental' marker, from the POV
> of a volunteer driver support guy:
>   - Show it in big letters in the Kconfig prompt of an experimental
>     feature.
>   - Explain at appropriate place(s) what the particular caveats of the
>     feature are.
> That's it.  I am not aware of a need to evaluate this marker in routines
> which calculate the .config, unlike the 'broken' marker.

Correct.


> BTW, the requirements of communication in feature removal processes are
> similar to a degree.  But feature removal involves more active two-way
> communication and is tied to a schedule.

'deprecated' and 'obsolete' are very different beasts from the other 
statuses.  They are largely just a marker of opinion of the developer, 
and are largely treated as synonyms.

Code that was never marked deprecated nor obsolete often appears in 
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, and eventually gets removed.

Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that does 
not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike experimental/broken.

	Jeff


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