linux-kernel - Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default

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Message-ID: <20100117065803.6e5e089e@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:58:03 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by
 default

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:41 -0800
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a bit
> > over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' option is
> > used.
> 
> Why?  

because the convention is that we use "default y" only for those things
that used to be on, and are now turned into a config option.



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