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Subject: Re: Why can't Johnny compile?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 21:42, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:37:32PM -0200, Arnaldo C. Melo escreveu:
> > Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:04:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> > > 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"
> 
> If, like for EXPERIMENTAL, BROKEN is selected by the user, or better,
> by a developer wanting to fix what is broken.

Thats basically what "OBSOLETE" is

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