Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> IP_VS has : >>>> >>>> .. >>>> >>>> tristate "IP virtual server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" >>>> >>>> .. >>>> >>>> but it does not depend on EXPERIMENTAL. >>>> >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig | 2 +- >>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig >>>> index 09d0c3f..3c594ec 100644 >>>> --- a/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig >>>> +++ b/net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig >>>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ >>>> # >>>> menuconfig IP_VS >>>> tristate "IP virtual server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" >>>> - depends on NETFILTER >>>> + depends on NETFILTER && EXPERIMENTAL >>>> ---help--- >>>> IP Virtual Server support will let you build a high-performance >>>> virtual server based on cluster of two or more real servers. This >>> there's maturity-level inconsistency like that in a few places, like >>> when stuff is tagged as EXPERIMENTAL, but labelled as OBSOLETE: >>> >> [ a lot examples ] >> >> I know that and there are a lot more things depending on >> 'EXPERIMENTAL' and not having EXPERIMENTAL visible all over the tree >> but that patch I've made for the _net_ part got NACK'ed while your >> maturity idea and I rm -rf'ed all the other. >> >> This one has a missing depends on EXPERIMENTAL while saying it is. >> >> So *could* we please stop this maturity stuff for now ? I don't see >> it in .23 nor .24 if at all. > > this has *nothing* to do with the aforementioned maturity levels. i > understand entirely the inconsistency above. what i'm suggesting is > that it might very well be more appropriate to *drop the dependency* > rather than munge the prompt to add the qualifier.
This is a thing the author/maintainer/subsystem maintainer should and need do. They know when something is not EXPERIMENTAL anymore. > > i think it's safe to say that there's *piles* of stuff in the Kconfig > files that is still saddled with an EXPERIMENTAL dependency that's > been around for years and has stabilized nicely. I agree with you , there may be a lot things are marked EXPERIMENTAL but aren't anymore. >i mean, seriously, > is IP virtual server support still "experimental" in any way? > > rday Gabriel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
