Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759176Ab2EDQfG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 12:35:06 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:62440 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751134Ab2EDQfF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 12:35:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1336124366.2046.20.camel@t41.thuisdomein> References: <1335995781.30754.27.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <1336124366.2046.20.camel@t41.thuisdomein> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 18:35:02 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Otte?= To: Paul Bolle Cc: Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 32 OK, thanks again Paul, for your answeres. J?rg 2012/5/4 Paul Bolle : > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:02 +0200, J?rg Otte wrote: >> this means especially the following is not possible or does not occure: >> >> NON-EXP: >> driver "A" uses library function "B" >> >> EXP: >> unchanged driver "A" now uses EXPERIMENTAL function "B-EXP" > > There's a number of things I can think of for "EXPERIMENTAL function". > What exactly do you mean here? > >> The question is whether this is guaranteed. > > If you were thinking about usage of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in code or in > Makefiles: no, I don't think there's a guarantee that this won't be > done. But it should be clear that EXPERIMENTAL is intended as, say, a > tag for config options. So it's likely that usage of EXPERIMENTAL > outside that scope will be prevented. > > > Paul Bolle > -- 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/