On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:27:07 GMT, Pavel Machek said: > I don't think this is good idea. But perhaps 'experimental' should be > removed from stuff that is really stable these days, like SATA?
I suspect that given the "once it escapes, it's cast in stone" view we take towards user-visible API/etc, there isn't much *real* room for an 'EXPERIMENTAL' flag anymore. Most of the usage should probably be confined to individual drivers, where all we should need is a 'default n' and suitable warning verbiage in the Kconfig file warning about the driver eating your filesystems and small animals for breakfast. We certainly shouldn't have one big flag for *all* in-progress drivers - I don't need to accidentally enable a busticated ethernet driver because I want a USB widget. And if you're worried about people accidentally enabling it, then *each driver* should have a 'Do you really mean it?' flag with *opposite* sense (so that 'make allyesconfig' doesn't turn it on by accident). Anything bigger than that, we probably want to redefine 'experimental' as "it doesn't escape from -mm to mainline till it's ready".
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