Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental

[Jörg Otte]

OK, thanks again Paul, for your answeres.
Jörg

2012/5/4 Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:02 +0200, Jörg Otte wrote:
>> this means especially the following is not possible or does not occure:
>>
>> NON-EXP:
>> driver "A" uses library function "B"
>>
>> EXP:
>> unchanged driver "A" now uses EXPERIMENTAL function "B-EXP"
>
> There's a number of things I can think of for "EXPERIMENTAL function".
> What exactly do you mean here?
>
>> The question is whether this is guaranteed.
>
> If you were thinking about usage of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in code or in
> Makefiles: no, I don't think there's a guarantee that this won't be
> done. But it should be clear that EXPERIMENTAL is intended as, say, a
> tag for config options. So it's likely that usage of EXPERIMENTAL
> outside that scope will be prevented.
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
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