From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Patrick Finnegan <pat@purdueriots.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why can't Johnny compile?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:34:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021117063413.A18893@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211160059540.16668-100000@ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com>; from pat@purdueriots.com on Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:04:35AM -0500
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:04:35AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Wouldn't it then seem reasonable to remove things from the kernel that
> have been broken for a long time, and no one seems to care enough to fix?
> I know of at least one driver (IOmega Buz v4l) that seems to have fallen
> into disrepair possibly since before 2.4.0, and as far as I know has not
> been repaired since then.
On a few opportunities when I removed broken features from the MIPS
kernel that was what it took to trigger somebody to fix it.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-17 5:27 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 [this message]
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
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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