Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Thomas Koenig) | Subject | Re: 2.1.21 patches for a clean compile | Date | 16 Jan 1997 16:27:24 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, Christian Kirsch <ck@gras.de> wrote: >Alan Cox wrote: >> >> I'm much more concerned about having _correct_ drivers than ones that happen >> to compile.
>This is a very subtle and fine point that I'm probably not intelligent enough to understand: A >driver that fails to compile but still works. Mut be something virtual ;-)
Better a driver which fails during compilation, so that people are warned (although I'd prefer an #error line, myself) than a driver which compiles ok but which erases my hard disk, blows up my cat and starts World War III.
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