linux-kernel - Re: PM_TRACE is no longer experimental

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Date:	Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:34:29 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Trivial patch monkey <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: PM_TRACE is no longer experimental

Hi.

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 19:11 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> On 14.08.2008 17:18 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > PM_TRACE is stable for quite long. I don't think it needs to depend on
> > experimental.
> 
> It might be stable, but its effect of trashing the RTC makes it unsuitable
> for non-experimental use. Therefore I'd prefer the dependency be kept.

I think you're confusing 'experimental' and 'debugging'. You certainly
wouldn't want to use it routinely, but that doesn't mean it's still an
experimental feature.

Regards,

Nigel

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