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
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