On Saturday 14 November 2009 17:01:08 Robert Hancock wrote: > On 11/14/2009 08:37 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Push experimental tags to host drivers that still need it so we can > > remove the "global" experimental tag for PATA drivers. > > > > I hear that some issues are being worked on but the patch reflects > > the current situation and we can trivially update status of affected > > host drivers after new fixes are merged. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz<bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > I don't think that the problems you've mentioned fit the definition of > the EXPERIMENTAL tag - it means that the driver isn't likely suitable I guess you've read bugzillas so if you still think that EXPERIMENTAL is not justified at least for some drivers than we really have nothing to talk about anymore.. > for general use. Given that those drivers are probably used by > significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions I > don't think this is likely to be the case. There may be bugs but > non-experimental does not imply bug free. Hardly a technical argument. You know that staging drivers are successfully used by "significant numbers of people successfully in various distributions"? :) zbr explained the problem with the kernel development process with more class than I would ever be able to so I will just save everybody's time.. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
