Re: Linux 2.5.70

ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-05-29T11:01:47Z

On Thursday 29 May 2003 14:14, Dave Jones wrote:
> Quite a lot of the 'xxx driver does not compile' bugs in bugzilla
> may actually have been filed by people just doing coverage testing
> to see what actually compiles and what doesn't.
> This does unfortunatly make it harder to see at first glance which
> drivers are actually still being used by users. The fact that quite
> a few of them have no follow-ups does suggest however that no-one who
> actually has the hardware cares enough to keep pushing to get things
> fixed. Moving a bunch of these under a CONFIG_BROKEN could be a useful
> thing to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

I was talking about bugs where user does provide valuable feedback not just
this/that does not compile but more info,debugging,testing etc.

Regards,
/ismail