Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750763AbWJ0Wma (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:42:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750775AbWJ0Wma (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:42:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:19428 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbWJ0Wm3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:42:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:38:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN Message-Id: <20061027153854.b44c4ecb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061027222326.GC27968@stusta.de> References: <20061026224541.GQ27968@stusta.de> <20061027010252.GV27968@stusta.de> <20061027012058.GH5591@parisc-linux.org> <20061026182838.ac2c7e20.akpm@osdl.org> <20061026191131.003f141d@localhost.localdomain> <20061027170748.GA9020@kroah.com> <20061027222326.GC27968@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 28 On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:23:26 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > ... > > So no, this should not be marked BROKEN. > > > > It's a very experimental feature, as the help text says. If you can > > think of any harsher language to put in that text, please let me know. > > The problem is that if only 1 out of 100 people who are compiling a > kernel accidentally enable this option, linux-kernel will be swamped > with bug reports... > Yes, that's a legitimate practical concern, IMO. I guess many of the people who test -rc kernels have sufficient familarity to know to disable this option, but a lot of the people who test major releases do not. So how about we mark PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE as broken in 2.6.19-rc6, then revert that change in 2.6.20-rc1, and keep doing that until the feature is ready? - 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/