Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751347AbWEUUt4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 16:49:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751474AbWEUUt4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 16:49:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52634 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751347AbWEUUtz (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 16:49:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:49:47 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , levon@movementarian.org, phil.el@wanadoo.fr, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Is OPROFILE actively maintained? Message-ID: <20060521204947.GM8250@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Chris Wedgwood , LKML , Linus Torvalds , levon@movementarian.org, phil.el@wanadoo.fr, Andrew Morton References: <20060520025322.GD9486@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20060521194915.GA2153@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20060521195710.GL8250@redhat.com> <20060521201720.GA2712@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060521201720.GA2712@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 30 On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > BROKEN is for stuff that doesn't compile, or is fundamentally flawed > > beyond repair at the current time (For example, needs infrastructure > > work to happen before it can work correctly). > > Sure, based on my personal experience oprofile works fine, I'm just > putting an idea out there given comments from others. > > > Oprofile fits neither of those categories. > > So it should remain EXPERIMENTAL then in your view? Part of the problem with EXPERIMENTAL is that it's been taken to mean all sorts of things over the years from "this isn't quite ready, but works" to "if you enable this, you're a lunatic". It's meant that pretty much everyone has to enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL anyway for a kernel offering the features everyone has come to expect. As means of example, I'll bet there's no (or at least very few) distros that ship a kernel with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/