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SubjectRe: [CFT] dmfe.c network driver update for 2.4
Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Frank Davis wrote:
> >
> > I would rather fix those non-SMP compliant drivers to be SMP compliant,
> > then keeping them 'broken'. Adding the print statements would only be a
> > temporary solution.
>
> Of course. This list of priorites is very natural, I think:
>
> 1. Working SMP driver
> 2. Broken SMP driver with a warning.
> 3. Broken SMP driver without a warning. (Even if "everyone" knows it
> is broken)
>
> It takes less than a minute to add such a warning, but it can take days
> or weeks to find someone to really fix the driver. That was my point.

Marking them with a #warning is fine with me.

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