Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

John Bradford
2003-07-27T16:00:34Z

> That way, a busted item would not be built by default, and the item's
> users would be motivated to correct it (and thus remove the stigma of
> the BROKEN flag).

The point is, allyesconfig is NOT the default, and shouldn't ever be
treated as such. The kernel resulting from an allyesconfig would
typically be too big to boot on i386 anyway.

> If an item stays BROKEN for too long, bu-bye! Obviously no-one cares
> enough to fix it.

Or has access to the hardware to fix it. For some rare hardware it
can be almost impossible to buy a replacement for any price, if it
breaks.

John.