Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751320AbVLMShi (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:37:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751288AbVLMShi (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:37:38 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:54005 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbVLMShh (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:37:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:28:41 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Adrian Bunk cc: Simon Richter , Linux Kernel Development , tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, Paul Mackerras , Linux/PPC Development , lethal@linux-sh.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] don't allow users to set CONFIG_BROKEN=y In-Reply-To: <20051213180551.GN23349@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20051211185212.GQ23349@stusta.de> <20051211192109.GA22537@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051211193118.GR23349@stusta.de> <20051211194437.GB22537@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051213001028.GS23349@stusta.de> <439ECDCC.80707@hogyros.de> <20051213140001.GG23349@stusta.de> <20051213173112.GA24094@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051213180551.GN23349@stusta.de> 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: 1086 Lines: 29 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Do not allow people to create configurations with CONFIG_BROKEN=y. > > The sole reason for CONFIG_BROKEN=y would be if you are working on > fixing a broken driver, but in this case editing the Kconfig file is > trivial. > > Never ever should a user enable CONFIG_BROKEN. ^^^^ OK, a user, not an expert. Let's assume users don't enable EXPERIMENTAL. But I'd like to at least have the possibility to enable broken drivers, even if it's just for compile regression tests. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/