On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> IP_VS has :
> >>
> >> ..
> >>
> >> tristate "IP virtual server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >>
> >> ..
> >>
> >> but it does not depend on EXPERIMENTAL.
> >>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig
> >> index 09d0c3f..3c594ec 100644
> >> --- a/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig
> >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> >> #
> >> menuconfig IP_VS
> >> tristate "IP virtual server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >> - depends on NETFILTER
> >> + depends on NETFILTER && EXPERIMENTAL
> >> ---help---
> >> IP Virtual Server support will let you build a high-performance
> >> virtual server based on cluster of two or more real servers. This
> >
> > there's maturity-level inconsistency like that in a few places, like
> > when stuff is tagged as EXPERIMENTAL, but labelled as OBSOLETE:
> >
> [ a lot examples ]
>
> I know that and there are a lot more things depending on
> 'EXPERIMENTAL' and not having EXPERIMENTAL visible all over the tree
> but that patch I've made for the _net_ part got NACK'ed while your
> maturity idea and I rm -rf'ed all the other.
>
> This one has a missing depends on EXPERIMENTAL while saying it is.
>
> So *could* we please stop this maturity stuff for now ? I don't see
> it in .23 nor .24 if at all.
this has *nothing* to do with the aforementioned maturity levels. i
understand entirely the inconsistency above. what i'm suggesting is
that it might very well be more appropriate to *drop the dependency*
rather than munge the prompt to add the qualifier.
i think it's safe to say that there's *piles* of stuff in the Kconfig
files that is still saddled with an EXPERIMENTAL dependency that's
been around for years and has stabilized nicely. i mean, seriously,
is IP virtual server support still "experimental" in any way?
rday
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