From: "ismail (cartman) donmez" <kde@myrealbox.com>
Organization: Bogazici University
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:14:10 +0300
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On Thursday 29 May 2003 14:14, Dave Jones wrote:
> Quite a lot of the 'xxx driver does not compile' bugs in bugzilla
> may actually have been filed by people just doing coverage testing
> to see what actually compiles and what doesn't.
> This does unfortunatly make it harder to see at first glance which
> drivers are actually still being used by users. The fact that quite
> a few of them have no follow-ups does suggest however that no-one who
> actually has the hardware cares enough to keep pushing to get things
> fixed.  Moving a bunch of these under a CONFIG_BROKEN could be a useful
> thing to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

I was talking about bugs where user does provide valuable feedback not just 
this/that does not compile but more info,debugging,testing etc.

Regards,
/ismail
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