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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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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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