On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:47:38AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
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>...
> <quote>
> config EXPERIMENTAL
> 	bool "Prompt for non-development and/or absolutely complete code/drivers"
 	---help---
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> 	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
> 	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
> 	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
> 	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
> 	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
> 	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
> 	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
> 	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
> 	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
>...

If you take this text seriously then companies like Redhat advertise 
their enterprise distributions with alpha-test quality software...

Facts are:
- as long as we allow hardware drivers to depend on EXPERIMENTAL we
  force many users to enable EXPERIMENTAL
- the EXPERIMENTAL dependencies in many areas of the kernel are so
  out of sync with the actual code quality that the presence or absence
  of such a dependency isn't a clear indication of the current status

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> 	-Mike

cu
Adrian

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