From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752807Ab2ARVt0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:26 -0500 Received: from smtp-out1.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.176]:41202 "EHLO smtp-out1.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751951Ab2ARVtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1326923285.9412.21.camel@x61.thuisdomein> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED From: Paul Bolle To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrew Jones , rientjes@google.com, mingo@elte.hu, david.woodhouse@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, axboe@kernel.dk, arnd@arndb.de, holt@sgi.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, hskinnemoen@gmail.com, egtvedt@samfundet.no, msalter@redhat.com, a-jacquiot@ti.com, starvik@axis.com, jesper nilsson , dhowells@redhat.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, yasutake koichi , jonas@southpole.se, kyle@mcmartin.ca, deller@gmx.de, jejb@parisc-linux.org, chris@zankel.net, greg@kroah.com, davej@redhat.com, airlied@linux.ie, jkosina@suse.cz, mchehab@infradead.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:48:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1326295008-29795-1-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com> <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2 (3.2.2-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 12:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I can see an argument for retaining EXPERIMENTAL: as a way of telling > people that the particular feature might not yet be ready for prime > time. The kernel configuration used for the kernels currently shipped with Fedora 16 and Debian 6.0.3 (ie, stable or squeeze), which are the configurations I can examine here, have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL set. Perhaps Debian and Fedora need that option for a few odd features. But it seems that the message given by having a feature depend on EXPERIMENTAL - to people using those configurations as a base to fine tune the kernel to their needs - isn't so strong. Are there any mainstream distributions that do not enable EXPERIMENTAL? Paul Bolle