Re: [2.6 patch] let broken drivers depend on BROKEN{,ON_SMP}

From: John Bradford
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 00:24:37 EST


If the user is ignorant to the point that an error message whilst
compiling a development kernel, (I.E. any kernel from kernel.org),
would cause them to think:

> Look, what a crap Linux is, the developers even care whether the
> kernel compiles.

they are forming an opinion of Linux based on things they don't
understand. That's ignorance, and CONFIG_BROKEN won't fix that.

John.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/