On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:39:34PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> >
> >On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:11:17PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> >>On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>...
> >>>>- Being able to easily enable it in menuconfig, then browse through
> >>>>the menus to look for something matching your hardware is nice, even
> >>>>if that something is marked BROKEN at least you've then found a place
> >>>>to start working on. A lot simpler than digging through directories.
> >>>
> >>>Our menus are mostly made for _users_.
> >>
> >>true, but do you really want to raise the barrier for users to test
> >>things? or do you intend to have a bunch of patches that remove BROKEN for
> >>a config option so that people can test them during the -rc and then add
> >>it back for them all before a real release?
> >
> >If an option is untested it's EXPERIMENTAL.
> >If it's broken it's BROKEN.
> >
> >If an option is marked as BROKEN but works fine for you please send a
> >bug report.
>
> my point is that if someone sends a patch that they think will fix
> something, nobody will be able to test that patch unless they are willing
> to edit their kconfig file unless the patch also marks it unbroken before
> anyone else has tested it.
Kernel developers usually aren't _that_ dumb:
The patch that fixes the driver simply removes the dependency on BROKEN.
> David Lang
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Adrian
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