Kernel Option Classifications

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Thu Oct 22 17:09:24 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:22 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Does anybody know if so wiki or guidelines out there 
> that defines how kernel option should be classified? 
> 
> Meaning what does it really means to be 'EXPERIMENTAL' or 
> 'DEVELOPER ONLY'. Are there any criteria that has to 
> be met to change them or is simply up to the maintainer's
> discretion?

Mostly up to their discretion. Robert P. J. Day has been doing a lot of
upstream cleanup work - maybe ping him about this?

Jon.





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