On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > What I like about the patch is that it associates some kconfig > > symbol with prompt strings, so that we don't have to edit > > "(EXPERIMENTAL)" all the darn time (e.g.). > > > > I'd be quite happy with calling it "status" rather than "maturity", > > and with being able to use multiple of the status tags at one time, > > such as > > > > config FOO > > depends on BAR > > status OBSOLETE BROKEN > > grrrrrrrr ... i already made my point in my earlier post. i'd > really, really like it if *this* attribute remained as "maturity". an > entirely *separate* attribute could be defined as a feature "status", > which would be entirely orthogonal to maturity level, so that the > above would be written as > > maturity OBSOLETE > status BROKEN > > there's a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one* > value for any attribute. that is, in terms of maturity, a feature > could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't*** > be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that > flexibility is to descend into absurdity.
If Simon (or anyone else) continues to work on it, I'll leave this decision up to them... --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
