Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 May 2012 18:35:02 +0200 | Subject | Re: [v3.4-rc5]: drm references experimental | From | Jörg Otte <> |
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OK, thanks again Paul, for your answeres. Jörg
2012/5/4 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:02 +0200, Jörg Otte wrote: >> this means especially the following is not possible or does not occure: >> >> NON-EXP: >> driver "A" uses library function "B" >> >> EXP: >> unchanged driver "A" now uses EXPERIMENTAL function "B-EXP" > > There's a number of things I can think of for "EXPERIMENTAL function". > What exactly do you mean here? > >> The question is whether this is guaranteed. > > If you were thinking about usage of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in code or in > Makefiles: no, I don't think there's a guarantee that this won't be > done. But it should be clear that EXPERIMENTAL is intended as, say, a > tag for config options. So it's likely that usage of EXPERIMENTAL > outside that scope will be prevented. > > > Paul Bolle > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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