Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:35:47 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] don't allow users to set CONFIG_BROKEN=y
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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.


Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

This patch was already sent on:
- 13 Dec 2005

--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm2-full/init/Kconfig.old	2005-12-13 18:48:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm2-full/init/Kconfig	2005-12-13 18:48:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -31,19 +31,8 @@
 	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
 	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
 
-config CLEAN_COMPILE
-	bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL
-	default y
-	help
-	  Select this option if you don't even want to see the option
-	  to configure known-broken drivers.
-
-	  If unsure, say Y
-
 config BROKEN
 	bool
-	depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE
-	default y
 
 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
 	bool

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