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Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22787 is a reply to message #22403] Sat, 27 October 2007 04:03 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Adrian Bunk is currently offline  Adrian Bunk
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>...
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that 
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>...

There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and 
what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the 
EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.

Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit 
number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.

> Eric

cu
Adrian

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