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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:37:32 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Why can't Johnny compile?
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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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