Bug#282964: You want broken drivers - you get broken drivers...
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:33:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> retitle 282964 kernel: don't allow users to shoot themselve into the foot
> severity 282964 wishlist
> tags 282964 +patch
> thanks
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> it seems you disabled the option
>
> Code maturity level options
> Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
> Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly
>
>
> It's known that some drivers do not compile and marked in the Kconfig
> files. And if you choose to try to compile them anyway, they do
> *surprise,surprise* not always compile.
>
> It's part of the UNIX philosophy that if you really want to shoot
> yourself into the foot, the system will not prevent your will.
>
> But in case Debian users shouldn't be allowed to shoot themselves into
> their foots, the following will suffice:
Hi Adrian,
I don't understand the intention of this patch.
I believe the behaviour for Debian kernel is the same
as upstream with regards to this, and I don't see a good
reason to move away from it. Could you explain a little more
fully?
> --- init/Kconfig.old 2004-11-25 21:26:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ init/Kconfig 2004-11-25 21:28:10.000000000 +0100
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
> drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
>
> config CLEAN_COMPILE
> - bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL
> + bool
> default y
> help
> Select this option if you don't even want to see the option
>
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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