Re: Why can't Johnny compile?

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 16:37:32 EST


Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:04:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> john slee wrote:
> >#error or #warning) to tag things as known broken. currently people use
> >#error during compile, but i'd like to see it show up in menuconfig
> >somehow.
 
> I respectfully disagree... I think if these sort of FIXMEs show up in
> menuconfig, you're not only cluttering up menuconfig, you also moving
> past the level of programmer to the sysadmin/power-user level. That
> seems like it would generate more bug reports than useful work.
 
> About the only thing WRT menuconfig I would be ok with is commenting out
> majorly broken drivers until they are fixed...

We have OBSOLETE, EXPERIMENTAL, why not BROKEN? 8)

It would appear as "BROKEN waiting for someone to fixme"

- Arnaldo
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