linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let GROUP

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Message-ID: <20080527112812.63697b39@core>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2008 11:28:12 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let GROUP_SCHED depend on BROKEN

> - as long as we allow hardware drivers to depend on EXPERIMENTAL we
>   force many users to enable EXPERIMENTAL
> - the EXPERIMENTAL dependencies in many areas of the kernel are so
>   out of sync with the actual code quality that the presence or absence
>   of such a dependency isn't a clear indication of the current status

It would probably be very useful to actually do an assessment of what is
marked experimental especially a cross compare with enterprise distros as
what they ship they have reviewed and consider supportable.

Alan
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