On Mon 2008-04-21 22:11:29, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>
> >> sure - but no need to be rude and mark it BROKEN when we've got this much 
> >> better tool named "email". BROKEN is really just for cases where there's 
> >> no-one willing to fix things.
> >
> > I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just trying to avoid putting an 
> > unnecessary burden on testers and just let Kconfig know not to pick 
> > this particular random path.  Obviously, Kconfig doesn't care, but 
> > it's clear BROKEN has negative associations; besides, it really is 
> > unnecessarily strong.
> >
> > Perhaps what we need is NORAND?
> 
> yep, i was thinking about CONFIG_BROKEN2 already :-)
> 
> then i came up with: CONFIG_NON_GENERIC. All code that can break a 
> normal bootup should be marked with that. Such as CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y 
> [panics on bootup] or CONFIG_EUROTECH_WDT=y [crashes on bootup] or 
> CONFIG_SND_MTPAV [hangs on bootup] and the dozens of other config 
> options i had to map when trying to bring up an allyesconfig kernel for 
> the first time ;-)

You certainly have my vote here. There's really big difference between
'this breaks boot when y (NFS_ROOT)' and 'this is mostly harmless when
y (any sane driver)'.

Actually in nfsroot case, we should probably fix the code so that it
is a nop w/out commandline option.

							Pavel
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