Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:24:39 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Does anybody try to compile the 2.3 kernels at all ? :(( |
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In <Pine.LNX.4.21.KSI2.0002101710550.17234-100000@nomad.ksi-linux.com> Sergey Kubushin (ksi@ksi-linux.com) wrote: > Hi, everybody.
> I wonder does anybody try to compile 2.3 kernels at all ? I'm not for a > blood, but I can't understand how can it be that _EIGHTH_ 2.3.43 pre in a > row have drivers/block/xor.c required for RAID5 missing ?
RAID is not in working state in 2.3. It's in Cox's ToDo list. Ingo planned to port it's RAID 0.90 to 2.3 for 2.4 ... AFAIK it was not done.
> I can't understand how could anybody hasn't noticed that the thing fails > even the "make dep"...
Since RAID is broken and it's KNOWN that RAID is broken there are no way to try to compile it...
> I can't understand that nobody has noticed that wanpipe does not build in > several _RELEASED_ kernels in a row because somebody has removed enable_IPX > and network_number that are spread all over the wan drivers code from > include/linux/wanrouter.h...
Hmm. Perhaps working wanrouter stuff is also distributed separately ?
> People, what's going on ? I can't believe that somebody did succed in > kernel compile having such mistakes in a source tree :(( It looks like > nobody has even tried to compile them, less for booting... How can it be > tested if it fails even to compile due to obvious mistakes ? Or it has not > to be tested at all ?
Features known to be broken should not be compiled. They should be fixed instead. And there are not enough manpower to fix all such places :-/
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