Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let NET_CLS_ACT no longer depend onEXPERIMENTAL

From: jamal
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 13:50:29 EST


On Sat, 2006-04-03 at 17:56 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This option should IMHO no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL.
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > This patch was already sent on:
> > - 12 Feb 2006
>
> Yesterday I managed to crash my machine playing around with tc actions
> within minutes. I haven't looked into it yet, but it seems it still
> needs more testing.

Simple: Fix the bug and submit a patch. If you cant find the cause post
what you are doing.

What is the metric for going from experimental to non-experimental?
I surely hope it doesnt come to some irrational reasoning like
"Patrick found a bug"[1].
- It has been around since 2.6.7/8;
- I use it extensively on about 10 machines since (I am pretty sure a
lot more extensively than Patrick)
- I know people who use it extensively
- I am pretty sure there are people that i dont know who use it
extensively

So on Adrian's patch and above reasoning:

ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>

cheers,
jamal

[1]If you used half of that logic on netfilter it would still be
experimental or rather should be demoted to experimental.


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