Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:20:29 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch, -git] input: CONFIG_INPUT_APANEL build fix |
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* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought the many years old rule for Linux kernel is to fix the > issues properly and not turn kernel into patchwork of crappy code.
correct, except if that would mean breakage for users.
> If we want to fix the randconfi issue I'd rather revert commit > 66242f7ec531953fbc2f4040c5ffe1f1ffe6c5c9 for now (they only thing it > did was beautify menuconfig look) and wait for Kconfig to be fixed. It > is not driver's task to track through all dependencies.
yep ... just dont export our internal crappiness to testers and users.
i'm not suggesting this is your fault in any way - but nevertheless many other subsystems have to deal with the same Kconfig issues and they manage to limp along.
Ingo
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