From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762302AbYDUUHS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761954AbYDUUG6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:06:58 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37720 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759248AbYDUUG5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:06:57 -0400 Message-ID: <480CF2F9.4060608@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:03:05 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Adrian Bunk , Alexey Starikovskiy , tglx@linutronix.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error References: <20080421000238.GD26897@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421085314.GI26897@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421120054.GA6788@elte.hu> <480C8FD6.3030700@zytor.com> <20080421195517.GH8770@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080421195517.GH8770@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > sure - but no need to be rude and mark it BROKEN when we've got this > much better tool named "email". BROKEN is really just for cases where > there's no-one willing to fix things. > I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just trying to avoid putting an unnecessary burden on testers and just let Kconfig know not to pick this particular random path. Obviously, Kconfig doesn't care, but it's clear BROKEN has negative associations; besides, it really is unnecessarily strong. Perhaps what we need is NORAND? -hpa