Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964813AbWAFS0s (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:26:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964827AbWAFS0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:26:47 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.195]:9515 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964813AbWAFS0q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:26:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CrUjOWRq/5tXEdL1UK2xWhXtsW8dgYQP7lSn5RIsKYI39QZkRdqLlXGid/8rs4OVUgBF0M4DdxbxQ1IFCd0845cSKyo55PxpkXws7etCdXqM1NO2WWgv2nbmkWaJekZsT05ZJ2YPWR7gzLbs+PgW8RxSKcwhBfBuZYT5PUfcohE= Message-ID: <9a8748490601061026t3e467dfdxc90b6403bbd45802@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:26:45 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] don't allow users to set CONFIG_BROKEN=y Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060106180626.GV12131@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060106173547.GR12131@stusta.de> <9a8748490601060949g4765a4dcrfab4adab4224b5ad@mail.gmail.com> <20060106180626.GV12131@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 31 On 1/6/06, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:49:55PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On 1/6/06, 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. > > > > > I disagree (slightly) with this patch for a few reasons: > > > > - It's very convenient to be able to enable it through menuconfig. > > And when do you really need it? > Hmm, when I'm looking for broken stuff to fix ;) I guess you are right, ordinary users don't need it.. Ok, count me in as supporting this move. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/