linux-kernel - Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807241606240.6474@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:06:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Grant Coady wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:14:22 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> wrote:

> >  how about a concerted effort to remove inappropriate EXPERIMENTAL
> >dependencies from the Kconfig files?  there must be a truckload of
> >stuff that has long since matured beyond EXPERIMENTAL status that is
> >still tagged that way.
>
> I sent a patch to remove EXPERIMENTAL on a three year old driver
> couple months ago, it got Acked by maintainer, hwmon/adm9240.  But I
> dunno if the patch is queued somewhere or lost.

at last count, there were 437 config selections that were tagged as
EXPERIMENTAL.  i find it hard to believe that there's that much
legitimately experimental content in the source tree.  surely *some*
of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.

rday
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