netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:25:53 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	sam@...nborg.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Gabriel C <crazy@...pmylinux.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > What I like about the patch is that it associates some kconfig
> > symbol with prompt strings, so that we don't have to edit
> > "(EXPERIMENTAL)" all the darn time (e.g.).
> >
> > I'd be quite happy with calling it "status" rather than "maturity",
> > and with being able to use multiple of the status tags at one time,
> > such as
> >
> > 	config FOO
> > 	depends on BAR
> > 	status OBSOLETE BROKEN
> 
> grrrrrrrr ... i already made my point in my earlier post.  i'd
> really, really like it if *this* attribute remained as "maturity".  an
> entirely *separate* attribute could be defined as a feature "status",
> which would be entirely orthogonal to maturity level, so that the
> above would be written as
> 
> 	maturity OBSOLETE
> 	status BROKEN
> 
> there's a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one*
> value for any attribute.  that is, in terms of maturity, a feature
> could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE.  it ***can't***
> be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE.  to allow that
> flexibility is to descend into absurdity.


If Simon (or anyone else) continues to work on it, I'll leave this
decision up to them...


---
~Randy
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