Re: Arm Compiler - Part 1 of Compiling Tests

[Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>]

I do known what they mean. It's good work for a long time
that isn't getting worked on therefore it seems good for
me to work on.
Cheers Nick

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 13:35 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> On the other hand there seems to be too many FIXMEs in the main
>> kernel for one person to fix.
>
> A quick grep for FIXMEs (also including the "XXX" pattern, which
> basically means the same thing) triggers over 7000 hits. Even with a
> (rather optimistic) one hour per FIXME that's over three years of work
> (assuming a sane working hours/year metric).
>
> Moreover, you appear to misunderstand the meaning of these FIXMEs. It's
> not a marker for something trivial that somehow never got done. It might
> actually mean all kind of things. In many cases it points at a hard, or
> time consuming, etc., problem that no one has yet found a way, or the
> time, to fix properly.
>
> I would not advise someone new to the kernel to grep for FIXMEs to see
> if they could contribute something. There are many things those people
> could do, but those FIXMEs seem an awkward place to start.
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>