Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754039Ab0AQO57 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:57:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752847Ab0AQO56 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:57:58 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41606 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753958Ab0AQO55 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:57:57 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:58:03 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Greg KH Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default Message-ID: <20100117065803.6e5e089e@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com> References: <1263505677.2074.2.camel@yio.site> <20100115065638.005ac690@infradead.org> <20100115180341.GA12146@kroah.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 22 On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:41 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a bit > > over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' option is > > used. > > Why? because the convention is that we use "default y" only for those things that used to be on, and are now turned into a config option. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/