On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:44:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Potential corruptors are usually flagged with (DANGEROUS) in the text, (One may argue that they shouldn't have escaped -mm) > 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. So no ethernet driver at all is better than a broken but mostly working one? Again if it isn't mostly working, it shouldn't have escaped -mm Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/