Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753713AbYGXUIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751663AbYGXUIH (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:07 -0400 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:57409 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbYGXUIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:06:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Grant Coady cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1419 Lines: 33 On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Grant Coady wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:14:22 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > how about a concerted effort to remove inappropriate EXPERIMENTAL > >dependencies from the Kconfig files? there must be a truckload of > >stuff that has long since matured beyond EXPERIMENTAL status that is > >still tagged that way. > > I sent a patch to remove EXPERIMENTAL on a three year old driver > couple months ago, it got Acked by maintainer, hwmon/adm9240. But I > dunno if the patch is queued somewhere or lost. at last count, there were 437 config selections that were tagged as EXPERIMENTAL. i find it hard to believe that there's that much legitimately experimental content in the source tree. surely *some* of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- 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/