Bug#282964: You want broken drivers - you get broken drivers...
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:36:39PM +0900, Horms wrote:
>
> 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
>...
Upstream allows by disabling this option, to select known broken
drivers.
With this patch applied, it's no longer possible for a user to select a
known broken driver.
cu
Adrian
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