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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:09:03 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Gabriel C <crazy@...pmylinux.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:51:33PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > there's no point adding all that redundant content when it can all be > > > > done automatically. > > > > > > I like it. Are there any kconfig patches to support this plan? > > > > Speaking specifically to adding 'EXPERIMENTAL', I distinctly > > remember at some point in the past the config system was smart > > enough to print " (EXPERIMENTAL)" if that entry depended on > > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. > > > > We should head in that direction. > > there's one point i want to re-iterate. i'd prefer to see > EXPERIMENTAL stop being a dependency, as in: > > depends on SNAFU && FUBAR && EXPERIMENTAL > > "EXPERIMENTAL" is not a dependency in the true sense of the word -- it > is more of an attribute, and i think it would far more sense to see > entries like: > > depends on SNAFU && FUBAR > maturity EXPERIMENTAL Plus some special case in the kconfig code that you can somewhere select the maturity levels you want to use (currently it's a normal option kconfig doesn't have to know anything about). Remind me, would there be any big advantage after such a change besides being able to automatically print " (EXPERIMENTAL)" at the end of the prompt? > sure, it's more work, but i think the cost is worth it in terms of > flexibility (particularly if *i'm* not the one doing the work. :-) If you are not doing it, noone might do it. And discusing improvements noone will implement is somehow pointless... > rday cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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