From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262144AbTE2K7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 06:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262145AbTE2K7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 06:59:12 -0400 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:57511 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262144AbTE2K7K (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 06:59:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:14:31 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: "ismail (cartman) donmez" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 Message-ID: <20030529111431.GA19994@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "ismail (cartman) donmez" , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: <200305282222.42227.kde@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305282222.42227.kde@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:22:42PM +0300, ismail (cartman) donmez wrote: > Quite true. But there are bugs at kernel bugzilla which > > 1- People care about it being fixed > 2- Tests beta kernels to see if its fixed > 3- Reports success/failures > > But still these bugs are unresolved. I do not say/mean kernel hackers do not > care them or something like that but it would be better to get these kind of > bugs ( with user base who tests them ) fixed before pre-2.6 releases. Quite a lot of the 'xxx driver does not compile' bugs in bugzilla may actually have been filed by people just doing coverage testing to see what actually compiles and what doesn't. This does unfortunatly make it harder to see at first glance which drivers are actually still being used by users. The fact that quite a few of them have no follow-ups does suggest however that no-one who actually has the hardware cares enough to keep pushing to get things fixed. Moving a bunch of these under a CONFIG_BROKEN could be a useful thing to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Dave