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

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Message-Id: <1216982515.17267.108.camel@spike.firmix.at>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:41:55 +0200
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:15 -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree.  surely *some*
> >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> > 
> > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?
> 
> Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?

Or until death. E.g. "devfs" went directly from "experimental" to
"obsolete".

	Bernd
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