Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default [LWN.net]

From:		Arjan van de Ven <arjan-AT-infradead.org>
To:		Greg KH <greg-AT-kroah.com>
Subject:		Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and enable it by default
Date:		Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:58:03 -0800
Cc:		Kay Sievers <kay.sievers-AT-vrfy.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:41 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > removing experimental is fine... but setting it by default is a bit
> > over the top and very inconsistent with how the 'default' option is
> > used.
> 
> Why?  

because the convention is that we use "default y" only for those things
that used to be on, and are now turned into a config option.



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