Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] As the alternative is
> 
> CONFIG_ATA_EXPERIMENTAL, CONFIG_NET_EXPERIMENTAL,
> CONFIG_VIDEO_EXPERIMENTAL, ... all being added by developers

yeah, i'd prefer that. People might be willing to enable an experimental 
video driver but not an experimental ATA driver. This global-scope "all 
or nothing" CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is totally pointless and _no_ distro 
uses it in practice.

If it's a pure label via which you want to document things as 
experimental then i'd agree with adding the "Warning: experimental code" 
to the help section of all the affected Kconfig entries (that way people 
would be more likely to actually read that label.)

but i think your suggestion of per-subsystem and/or per-driver quality 
levels is superior to that.

	Ingo
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