From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:00:03 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] What if eth_init() fails? In-Reply-To: <473B2817.8040504@freescale.com> References: <13740586.post@talk.nabble.com> <200711141149.31028.vapier@gentoo.org> <473B2817.8040504@freescale.com> Message-ID: <200711141200.03914.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Timur Tabi wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > so by fixing one bug, you may expose other bugs, and that's a bad thing ? > > bad code has gotta go ! > > My point was that if you fix this bug, you should be prepared for other > bugs to show up, and people to be surprised about it. Don't just fix the > first bug and walk away. If you can't test all the other platforms, then > you should at least pay attention when other people report the other bugs, > and then help them out. i'd say it is the fault of those platforms for having bad code in the first place ... cant reasonably expect Upakul to audit and fix everyone's mistakes. -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20071114/002769c6/attachment.pgp