On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 2) given how long profiling has been around, it's just as pointless to
> > keep categorizing it as EXPERIMENTAL, so drop all EXPERIMENTAL labels
> > and dependencies.
>
> Only because something has been around for a while, even for years,
> it doesn't automatically loose "experimental" status.  It does when
> it has been extensively and successfully debugged, verified and
> tested, and no reservations regarding run-time stability or
> userspace interface stability remain.  Is this true for these
> profiling options?

i have no idea.  that's why i listed the patch as "RFC".  i was hoping
to get some feedback.

rday
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