Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756218AbXIASSQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:18:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753376AbXIASSF (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:18:05 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:46242 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753533AbXIASSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:18:04 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Dave Jones cc: Stefan Richter , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D9306C.9040301@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070901172231.GA28391@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 35 On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need > > a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across options and > > think "Oh, the driver for my network card isn't stable. Guess I'll > > not enable it". And the idea of hiding the options behind multiple > > levels of maturity options sounds completely batshit. by the way and just for the record, dave, you have the above completely backwards. the default for what you would be allowed to select or deselect would be *everything*. what this whole maturity level thing would allow you to do is selectively *deselect* (or *filter*) what is displayed. in short, if you do nothing, you see no effect. so i don't mind folks criticizing the proposal. but it sure would be nice if they understood what they were criticising, know what i mean? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/