From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] disable CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_PORTS config option
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:13:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604131332.GI1250@blimpo.internal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0206041108400.8847-100000@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:19:19AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> IMHO it gives a bad picture of the quality of Linux if a stable kernel
> contains options that doesn't compile. CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_PORTS
> doesn't compile (the error message is at the end of the mail) and Andreas
> Bombe stated in a private mail to me four months ago that it shouldn't
> have been a public option.
>
> My patch doesn't do any harm because currently the kernel doesn't compile
> when this option is enabled and if someone fixes pcilynx.c it's pretty
> trivial to revert this patch.
We've already done this locally in our repo. Go ahead and apply this
patch if you want.
Ben
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2002-06-04 9:19 [patch] disable CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_PORTS config option Adrian Bunk
2002-06-04 13:13 ` Ben Collins [this message]
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