From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: szepe@pinerecords.com, Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org, Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let broken drivers depend on BROKEN{,ON_SMP}
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:48:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030802194834.GG16426@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307310941.h6V9fGIL000804@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:41:16AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
>...
> Also, remember that some things might only give compile errors under
> certain circumstances. The _vast_ majority of kernels include TCP/IP
> support, for example, so something that breaks when it's not
> configured could easily go unnoticed for ages - does that mean it
> should be put behind CONFIG_BROKEN when it's discovered?
Most such issues aren't hard to fix once they are discovered.
Most broken drivers in 2.6 are different: They need a big amount of
non-trivial work to get them fixed.
> John.
cu
Adrian
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2003-07-31 9:41 John Bradford
2003-08-02 19:48 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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2003-08-17 21:27 John Bradford
2003-08-14 5:28 John Bradford
2003-08-13 20:40 John Bradford
2003-08-13 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 11:29 John Bradford
2003-07-30 11:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 11:53 ` Jan Evert van Grootheest
2003-07-30 9:11 John Bradford
2003-07-30 10:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 16:04 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-30 16:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-31 9:15 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-02 19:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 14:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-13 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 19:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 21:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-17 9:39 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-18 23:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-07-29 19:59 Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 7:44 ` Riley Williams
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