Re: PM_TRACE is no longer experimental

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Aug 18 2008 - 11:52:58 EST


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:11:36PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> On 14.08.2008 17:18 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > PM_TRACE is stable for quite long. I don't think it needs to depend on
> > experimental.
>
> It might be stable, but its effect of trashing the RTC makes it unsuitable
> for non-experimental use. Therefore I'd prefer the dependency be kept.

It only does that if you boot with command line options to enable it.
Besides, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL was always about code maturity, not a
safety net for people who don't read the descriptions.

Pavels change makes sense to me.

Dave

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