From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:08:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:08:05 -0500 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:43154 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:08:04 -0500 Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe From: Alan Cox To: dpaun@rogers.com Cc: Rusty Lynch , trog@wincom.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200211261304.32678.dpaun@rogers.com> References: <3de395e1.2c79.0@wincom.net> <002001c29572$2ce2b2e0$94d40a0a@amr.corp.intel.com> <200211261304.32678.dpaun@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 26 Nov 2002 18:46:22 +0000 Message-Id: <1038336382.2594.67.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:04, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On November 26, 2002 12:35 pm, Rusty Lynch wrote: > > So how would you deal with somebody contributing bogus mappings? > > What if somebody was just wrong, or uploading a mapping in error? > > The same applies to the kernel code, or any other open source project: > How do you deal with somebody contributing bogus code? > > Somehow things work out, as we have already witnessed. For boards its not that simple. Many vendors release multiple utterly different machines with the same box, bios and ident. The customer is told "IDE CD, 100mbit ethernet", the customer gets random cheapest going ethernet. Alan