On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 romieu@fr.zoreil.com wrote:
> [Cc trimmed]
>
> Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> :
> [...]
> > So how 'bout this:
> >
> > * mark all drivers that don't compile OBSOLETE. That keeps us from
> > trying to fix drivers without having hardware to test them.
> > Anyone with proper hardware is invited to fix the drivers and then
> > mark them non-OBSOLETE.
>
> Plain old #warning doesn't work that bad and requires 0 extra new feature.
I think there needs to be some sort of warning during the configuration
process - people will discover that a driver doesn't compile when they get
a screenfull of gcc errors and make halts compiling, they shouldn't need a
#warning to figure that out.
Pat
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