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Message-ID: <CADDKRnCz1wfcUKdPCFzMya3kr3f-gRuQoopiYa1fZ55VtAjxXw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 18:35:02 +0200 From: Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@...glemail.com> To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental OK, thanks again Paul, for your answeres. Jörg 2012/5/4 Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>: > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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