Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752388AbXJ0EDe (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750704AbXJ0ED0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:03:26 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:51666 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717AbXJ0EDZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:03:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:03:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andrew Morton , kir@swsoft.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kir@openvz.org, Cedric Le Goater , Pavel Emelyanov , Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) Message-ID: <20071027040346.GQ30533@stusta.de> References: <20071027002448.GH30533@stusta.de> <20071027020408.GO30533@stusta.de> <20071026191845.fd0f75c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 32 On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >... > It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro > from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into > trouble. >... There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL. Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4. > Eric cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/