From: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: ntsync: mark driver as "broken" to prevent from building
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:45:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12433821.O9o76ZdvQC@watership> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024051450-abrasion-swizzle-550b@gregkh>
On Tuesday, May 14, 2024 2:16:51 AM CDT Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The ntsync code is only partially enabled in the kernel at this point in
> time, creating the device node and that's about it. Don't confuse
> systems that expect to see a working ntsync interface by teasing it with
> this basic structure at this point in time, so mark the code as "broken"
> so that it is not built and enabled just yet.
>
> Once the rest of the code is accepted, this will be reverted so that the
> driver can be correctly built and used, but for now, this is the safest
> way forward.
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>
--
I was even thinking of suggesting something like this myself. Sorry for
taking so long to get the rest of the patches into acceptable shape...
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2024-05-14 7:16 [PATCH] misc: ntsync: mark driver as "broken" to prevent from building Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-05-14 21:45 ` Elizabeth Figura [this message]
2024-05-15 5:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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