Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:23:36 +0200 | From | Herbert Pötzl <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:56:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 21:56, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > That's no problem for me. > > > > The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on > > UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP, > > would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP? > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention. > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ?
I'm no native speaker, but Webster says:
obsolete:
a) no longer in use or no longer useful b) of a kind or style no longer current
broken:
2) damaged or altered by breaking 5) not complete or full
so I would prefer BROKEN over OBSOLETE, at least for drivers which are known _not_ to work as expected, but OBSOLETE over BROKEN for oldfashioned, but working drivers superceeded by newer ones ...
JMHO, Herbert
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