On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > rather than post to the LKML, is this the right forum to ask about > > implementing an actual "maturity" directive in the build > > infrastructure? thanks. > > Hi rday. > No this is not the right forum for this question - lkml is a much better > forum due to the wider audience. > > Today we have a number of related config's: BROKEN, BROKEN_ON_SMP > EXPERIMENTAL > > Reality tells us that the "Code maturity level" configs are often > mis maintained. As an example many drivers tagged "EXPERIMENTAL" are > used in production environments and distributions often define > EXPERIMENTAL. > > And the actual value of more fine grained maturity level is > questionable. It needs to be used consistently or it will not be of > any real value. And we cannot make thet work with the single > "EXPERIMENTAL" so making it more fine-tuned will have little > possibility for success.
i'd already noticed that, so i'll give this some thought before i post to LKML. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
