Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:03:04 +0200 (MET_DST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: config-menus |
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > o A "Prompt for drivers/code flagged DANGEROUS" option in the > > > code-maturity section that is conditional depending on EXPERIMENTAL > > > > What is the difference between experimental/dangerous, except the latter > > scares people. > > That was kind of the idea... There is a reason for flagging code > DANGEROUS. Only people who really doesn't care if their dogs die, their > grandmas get abducted by aliens, their disks crashed and their screens > burned out enables such code, while many wannabe hackers enables > EXPERIMENTAL code. > > You are entirely mistaken. > If I enable EXPERIMENTAL, it is not because I want to be a hacker, > it is because my machine has a RealTek 8139 ethernet card. > (Yes, it works fine, thank you.)
:^) I use experimental options too, but for instance experimental filesystems isn't something I'd use on machine where work other than development is performed, and experimental net-support might be cool, but not on web-servers, etc...
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL makes all the DANGEROUS options available as it stands now. My change removes that.
This gives an opportunity to make it clearer what things are experimental in a "safe" way (ok, you might hang your computer and lose a file or two, but you'll have most of your disk intact), and what's really mean.
In my opinion, there are quite a lot of drivers that could lose that EXPERIMENTAL-flag without too much trouble; many drivers that are flagged such are more stable than some of those not flagged as such....
> It's all a question of psychology. While EXPERIMENTAL sounds cool and > inviting, DANGEROUS doesn't quite have that ring to itself... > > No. That is why we shouldnt use DANGEROUS.
As an option, or why we shouldn't use such drivers?
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