Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755207AbYGYKXT (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:23:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752566AbYGYKXJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:23:09 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:39796 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752330AbYGYKXI (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:23:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Chris Friesen" Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Grant Coady , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"? Message-ID: <20080725110539.3e775940@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4889615D.9020706@nortel.com> References: <20080724211141.4fa557ca@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4889615D.9020706@nortel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 19 On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:09 -0400 "Chris Friesen" wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree. surely *some* > >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped. > > > > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ? > > Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately? I would certainly think so. We have stuff which is very long term experimental (often because the vendor of the hardware won't provide docs) but it is better to have this than nothing. -- 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/