From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why can't Johnny compile?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:37:32 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021116213732.GO24641@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD6B2C5.3010303@pobox.com>
Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:04:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> john slee wrote:
> >#error or #warning) to tag things as known broken. currently people use
> >#error during compile, but i'd like to see it show up in menuconfig
> >somehow.
> I respectfully disagree... I think if these sort of FIXMEs show up in
> menuconfig, you're not only cluttering up menuconfig, you also moving
> past the level of programmer to the sysadmin/power-user level. That
> seems like it would generate more bug reports than useful work.
> About the only thing WRT menuconfig I would be ok with is commenting out
> majorly broken drivers until they are fixed...
We have OBSOLETE, EXPERIMENTAL, why not BROKEN? 8)
It would appear as "BROKEN waiting for someone to fixme"
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-16 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-16 5:35 Why can't Johnny compile? Dan Kegel
2002-11-16 5:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-16 6:04 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-16 6:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-16 6:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-17 5:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-11-16 9:47 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-16 14:37 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-11-16 15:11 ` john slee
2002-11-16 6:23 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-11-16 19:14 ` Nathan
2002-11-16 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-16 21:37 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-11-16 21:42 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-11-16 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 0:09 ` Dan Kegel
2002-11-17 0:08 ` romieu
2002-11-17 3:18 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-17 0:18 ` Nathan
2002-11-17 0:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 21:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-18 23:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-19 16:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-19 16:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-19 18:01 ` David G Hamblen
2002-11-19 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 1:34 ` Adam Kropelin
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