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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

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-02 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-31  9:41 John Bradford
2003-08-02 19:48 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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