Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754870AbXJ1QMn (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751072AbXJ1QMg (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:36 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:34258 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751240AbXJ1QMf (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4724B4F2.7070500@goop.org> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:12:34 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Adrian Bunk , Kir Kolyshkin , 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) References: <20071027002448.GH30533@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 18 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Roughly that sounds like CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to me. But I would > be happy to hear if someone has a better idea. > Rather than overload an existing config option, why not add one with the specific semantics you want: CONFIG_UNSTABLE_UABI. The problem seems like one which which may occur again, though one hopes not too often. I guess the risk is that people will leave their subsystems depending on it permanently (sysfs?), so it ends up being set all the time and becomes as useless as EXPERIMENTAL... J - 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/