From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269617AbTGXRhN (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:37:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269621AbTGXRhN (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:37:13 -0400 Received: from tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.185]:11677 "EHLO tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269617AbTGXRhI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:37:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= cc: Bas Mevissen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? In-Reply-To: <20030724193211.39d7ed68.diegocg@teleline.es> Message-ID: References: <1059058737.7994.25.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3F1FFC94.7080409@basmevissen.nl> <20030724193211.39d7ed68.diegocg@teleline.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Diego Calleja [ISO-8859-15] García wrote: > El Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:34:44 +0200 Bas Mevissen escribió: > > > This would make a reasonable Q-requirement for 2.6.0 that at least the > > kernel compiles with 'make allyesconfig'. The only thing open is to > > That 2.6.0 builds with 'make allyesconfig' or not is irrelevant. > Moving broken drivers to a dark place doesn't fix them nor increase the > "quality" level..... once upon a time, i suggested having more than one level of module "quality". at the moment, some kernel code is marked as "EXPERIMENTAL", but this is supported via a regular dependency when it doesn't really qualify as a dependency. dependencies are typically used to refer to dependencies on other *code*, not some abstract level of goodness like "EXPERIMENTAL". perhaps it's time to add another category with values like OBSOLETE, DEPRECATED, EXPERIMENTAL, BROKEN(?) and so on. by default, the quality would be regular, or something like that. and in the end, while i know some folks don't think it's a big deal, i think doing a "make allyesconfig" really should work. rday