Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:37:32 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Why can't Johnny compile? |
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Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:04:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu: > john slee wrote: > >#error or #warning) to tag things as known broken. currently people use > >#error during compile, but i'd like to see it show up in menuconfig > >somehow.
> I respectfully disagree... I think if these sort of FIXMEs show up in > menuconfig, you're not only cluttering up menuconfig, you also moving > past the level of programmer to the sysadmin/power-user level. That > seems like it would generate more bug reports than useful work.
> About the only thing WRT menuconfig I would be ok with is commenting out > majorly broken drivers until they are fixed...
We have OBSOLETE, EXPERIMENTAL, why not BROKEN? 8)
It would appear as "BROKEN waiting for someone to fixme"
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