From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:26:12 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support In-Reply-To: <20090422141140.BE89983420E8@gemini.denx.de> References: <20090420153433.GM21747@pengutronix.de> <200904201429.34870.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090421070431.GX5367@pengutronix.de> <20090421144004.B1DF583420E8@gemini.denx.de> <20090421182102.GZ21747@pengutronix.de> <20090421200838.E3D5483420E8@gemini.denx.de> <20090421223025.GA21747@pengutronix.de> <20090421231207.85CBA83420E8@gemini.denx.de> <20090422102743.GA2010@localhost.localdomain> <49EEDB1A.2020001@denx.de> <20090422132536.GA2408@localhost.localdomain> <20090422141140.BE89983420E8@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <49EF2904.20709@ge.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: [snip] > There are broken boards around, too - of course. There are those > board maintainers who simply dump their stuff on us and then never > show up again with any contributions any more. > > I don't know how we could prevent that. It's probably happening with > any similar software project. For exampole, do you think all exisitng > board configurations in the Linux kernel are working, or even com- > pile-clean? Note that this happens even worse in the commercial world: how many printers were thrown in dumpsters because users bought a new computer running Vista and the printer manufacturer couldn't be bothered to write a new Vista-clean driver for the printers they had already sold? They just said "Sorry, buy a new printer." That is a very obvious example, there are tons of other examples. > Best regards, > Wolfgang Denk Ditto, gvb