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SubjectRe: time for some drivers to be removed?
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b) of a kind or style no longer current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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