Re: Why can't Johnny compile?

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 00:34:13 EST


On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:04:35AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> Wouldn't it then seem reasonable to remove things from the kernel that
> have been broken for a long time, and no one seems to care enough to fix?
> I know of at least one driver (IOmega Buz v4l) that seems to have fallen
> into disrepair possibly since before 2.4.0, and as far as I know has not
> been repaired since then.

On a few opportunities when I removed broken features from the MIPS
kernel that was what it took to trigger somebody to fix it.

  Ralf
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