Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:08:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:08:13 -0500 Received: from excalibur.cc.purdue.edu ([128.210.189.22]:20495 "EHLO ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:08:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:18:01 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Finnegan To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why can't Johnny compile? In-Reply-To: <20021117010801.A21229@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 33 On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 romieu@fr.zoreil.com wrote: > [Cc trimmed] > > Dan Kegel : > [...] > > So how 'bout this: > > > > * mark all drivers that don't compile OBSOLETE. That keeps us from > > trying to fix drivers without having hardware to test them. > > Anyone with proper hardware is invited to fix the drivers and then > > mark them non-OBSOLETE. > > Plain old #warning doesn't work that bad and requires 0 extra new feature. I think there needs to be some sort of warning during the configuration process - people will discover that a driver doesn't compile when they get a screenfull of gcc errors and make halts compiling, they shouldn't need a #warning to figure that out. Pat -- Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/