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Message-ID: <20071027040346.GQ30533@stusta.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:03:46 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kir@...oft.com,
containers@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, kir@...nvz.org,
Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>...
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>...
There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and
what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the
EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.
Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit
number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.
> Eric
cu
Adrian
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