linux-kernel - Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2012 11:39:26 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:02 +0200, Jörg Otte wrote:
> this means especially the following is not possible or does not occure:
> 
> NON-EXP:
> driver "A" uses library function "B"
> 
> EXP:
> unchanged driver "A" now uses EXPERIMENTAL function "B-EXP"

There's a number of things I can think of for "EXPERIMENTAL function".
What exactly do you mean here?

> The question is whether this is guaranteed.

If you were thinking about usage of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in code or in
Makefiles: no, I don't think there's a guarantee that this won't be
done. But it should be clear that EXPERIMENTAL is intended as, say, a
tag for config options. So it's likely that usage of EXPERIMENTAL
outside that scope will be prevented.

Paul Bolle

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