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Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 16:59, David D. Hagood wrote:
> This is a pet peeve of mine on Free Software projects in general - The 
> Program That Wouldn't Compile.
> 
> It would seem to me that in the context of the kernel, what is needed is 
> a BROKEN flag.

We've had one for years. Its CONFIG_OBSOLETE, its even used in 2.6test