Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 14:22:41 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.70 |
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ricky Beam wrote: > >> > >> Count up the number of drivers that haven't been updated to the current > >> PCI, hotplug, and modules interfaces. > > > >Tough. If people don't use them, they don't get supported. It's that easy. > ... > > Allow me to clarify... I don't mind drivers not working. I *do* mind > drivers emitting hundreds of warnings and errors because dozens of things > were changed and no one cared to update everything they broke. In some > cases, fixing things may be simple (eg. someone removed or renamed a field > in a struct somewhere) and in others years of work my be required (eg. > the new module interface.) > > In my opinion (as it was in the long long ago), everything in a "stable" > release should at least compile cleanly -- "working" comes later after > users have been conned into using it.
No. Doing this hides bugs.
We use the compiler to make bugs and needing-work areas blindingly obviously. Your suggesting we make them less so.
Jeff
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