Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:24:49 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@swsoft.com>, containers@lists.osdl.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kir@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2)
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:59:29PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir@swsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Eric,
> >
> > Could you please hold off the horses a bit and wait till Pavel Emelyanov
> > returns? It means next Monday; he's currently at a conference whose organisers
> > don't provide internet access.
> 
> When we decided to go top down (i.e. user interface first) instead of
> bottom up with the pid namespace implementation it was my
> understanding that we had agreed we would make the pid namespaces
> depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL so that we wouldn't be stuck forever
> supporting early ABI mistakes.
>...

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is a weak hint that some code might not (yet) be in 
a perfect state, but it does not have any semantics regarding
userspace ABIs.

A dependency on BROKEN seems more appropriate.

> Eric

cu
Adrian

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