Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:31:18 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've mentioned this before, but in a perfect world, should it > be possible to build a release version of the kernel with > "make allyesconfig". this is generally not possible, since there's > always the occasional broken driver that just won't compile. > > more to the point, there are drivers that seem to be perpetually > broken. as an example, the riscom8 driver has been borked for as > long as i can remember. at some point, shouldn't something like > this either be fixed or just removed? what's the point of > perpetually bundling a driver that doesn't even compile?
A first patch is at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.2/0770.html
I'll send an updated patch against -test2 or -test3.
Ideally, these drivers will be fixed during 2.6 when more people start using 2.6...
> rday
cu Adrian
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