Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:09 -0400
"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree.  surely *some*
> >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> > 
> > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?
> 
> Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?

I would certainly think so. We have stuff which is very long term
experimental (often because the vendor of the hardware won't provide
docs) but it is better to have this than nothing.
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