Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

What I like about the patch is that it associates some kconfig
symbol with prompt strings, so that we don't have to edit
"(EXPERIMENTAL)" all the darn time (e.g.).

I'd be quite happy with calling it "status" rather than "maturity",
and with being able to use multiple of the status tags at one time,
such as

config FOO
depends on BAR
status OBSOLETE BROKEN

grrrrrrrr ... i already made my point in my earlier post. i'd
really, really like it if *this* attribute remained as "maturity". an
entirely *separate* attribute could be defined as a feature "status",
which would be entirely orthogonal to maturity level, so that the
above would be written as

maturity OBSOLETE
status BROKEN

there's a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one*
value for any attribute. that is, in terms of maturity, a feature
could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't***
be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that
flexibility is to descend into absurdity.

rday
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