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

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Message-ID: <4889615D.9020706@nortel.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:09 -0400
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	"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"?

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?

Chris
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