Re: RFC: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2007-11-10 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:08:55 +0100
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> - History has shown that often the dependency on EXPERIMENTAL is not 
>   removed when the code has proven usable.

Guilty as charged. Feel free to kill any references to experimental for sdhci.

(I also support the general sentiment)

Rgds
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Re: RFC: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2007-11-10 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:08:55 +0100
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 - History has shown that often the dependency on EXPERIMENTAL is not 
   removed when the code has proven usable.

Guilty as charged. Feel free to kill any references to experimental for sdhci.

(I also support the general sentiment)

Rgds
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Re: RFC: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2007-11-01 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I'm about to send a patch that removes the EXPERIMENTAL option and all 
> dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL because they are pointless.

FWIW, I agree.

[...]
>   As an example, is our NFSv4 support really still in an
>   "alpha-test phase" [1], or is it already ready for being used?
[...]
> [1] quoted from the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL help text

I don't know about NFSv4 in particular, but I think we have the whole
palette, from "alpha" software which is basically ready for production,
to buggy incomplete software which is heavily in production and trains
users to lower their expectations.
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Re: RFC: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2007-11-01 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote:
 I'm about to send a patch that removes the EXPERIMENTAL option and all 
 dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL because they are pointless.

FWIW, I agree.

[...]
   As an example, is our NFSv4 support really still in an
   alpha-test phase [1], or is it already ready for being used?
[...]
 [1] quoted from the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL help text

I don't know about NFSv4 in particular, but I think we have the whole
palette, from alpha software which is basically ready for production,
to buggy incomplete software which is heavily in production and trains
users to lower their expectations.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=-=-=== =-== =
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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