Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:48:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:48:39 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:6553 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:48:35 -0400 From: Alan Cox Message-Id: <200208071151.g77Bpmt19650@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Subject: Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1 To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:51:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox), ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020807131813.A25485@wotan.suse.de> from "Andi Kleen" at Aug 07, 2002 01:18:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 20 > > Thats a packaging issue for distributed prebuilt kernel trees. Also crashes > > are the only way you are going to find out what needs fixing, who wants to > > fix it and the like > > I disagree. In my opinion such low standards on the kernel configuration > are not acceptable. Things that 100% will not work should not be > visible. Time to chmod 0 the v2.5 directory. In a perfect would I'd be able to have config_experimental let me pick all the stuff not tested on x86_64. To do that sanely we have to fix the configuration language otherwise it will just never be maintainable and we will spend the rest of 2.4 haunted by "Why has xyz vanished on Alpha in 2.4.21" - 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/