Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:44:44PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
 
 > I suspect that given the "once it escapes, it's cast in stone" view we take
 > towards user-visible API/etc, there isn't much *real* room for an
 > 'EXPERIMENTAL' flag anymore.  Most of the usage should probably be confined to
 > individual drivers, where all we should need is a 'default n' and suitable
 > warning verbiage in the Kconfig file warning about the driver eating your
 > filesystems and small animals for breakfast.

Potential corruptors are usually flagged with (DANGEROUS) in the text,
(One may argue that they shouldn't have escaped -mm)

 >  We certainly shouldn't have
 > one big flag for *all* in-progress drivers - I don't need to accidentally
 > enable a busticated ethernet driver because I want a USB widget.

So no ethernet driver at all is better than a broken but mostly working one?
Again if it isn't mostly working, it shouldn't have escaped -mm

	Dave

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