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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:00:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030727170019.GU22218@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059324018.13442.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:40:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Disclaimer:
I'm not a native English speaker.

In my ears, "obsolete" sounds like "there's something newer instead" and 
"broken" sounds like "it doesn't work at the moment".

This might be wrong, but if it's right I do prefer BROKEN.

Anyway, it's not that important whether OBSOLETE or BROKEN is used.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-27 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-24 12:20 time for some drivers to be removed? Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 15:34   ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-24 17:32     ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 17:50       ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:16         ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 19:43           ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 18:02       ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-24 19:07     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-25 10:48       ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-27 15:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 15:59   ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 16:18     ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 16:40     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 17:00       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-07-27 18:45       ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 20:40         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 20:56           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 20:56             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28  2:23               ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-29 19:33               ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:16                 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-09 18:04   ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-09 19:36     ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-24 14:43 John Bradford
2003-07-24 19:24 ` Brian Jackson
2003-07-24 18:29 John Bradford
2003-07-24 18:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:31   ` Eli Carter
2003-07-25 10:48 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-25 11:10 John Bradford
2003-07-27 16:22 John Bradford
2003-07-28  7:12 linux
2003-08-05 12:42 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 13:35   ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:48     ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 14:01       ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-06 10:06         ` Claus-Justus Heine
2003-08-09 19:40           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 16:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-05 18:47   ` Leopold Gouverneur
2003-08-13 20:55 John Bradford
2003-08-13 20:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-14  5:34 John Bradford

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