linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:34:11 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:44:44PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
 
 > I suspect that given the "once it escapes, it's cast in stone" view we take
 > towards user-visible API/etc, there isn't much *real* room for an
 > 'EXPERIMENTAL' flag anymore.  Most of the usage should probably be confined to
 > individual drivers, where all we should need is a 'default n' and suitable
 > warning verbiage in the Kconfig file warning about the driver eating your
 > filesystems and small animals for breakfast.

Potential corruptors are usually flagged with (DANGEROUS) in the text,
(One may argue that they shouldn't have escaped -mm)

 >  We certainly shouldn't have
 > one big flag for *all* in-progress drivers - I don't need to accidentally
 > enable a busticated ethernet driver because I want a USB widget.

So no ethernet driver at all is better than a broken but mostly working one?
Again if it isn't mostly working, it shouldn't have escaped -mm

	Dave

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