Subject: Re: guspnp driver still broken
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/10/2006 07:13:28
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> I realize, it's rather impossible to make the detailed tests of, say,
> every driver, which release does contain. But what about bugs mentioned in
> PRs already, some even since years? As Misha wrote: "even several years of
> fixup time"...

I guess it comes down to deciding how critical a PR is, and whether it
is worth holding up a release.

It does make sense to remove hardware from the supported list in the
install instructions if the driver is known to be broken, or at least
mention the problem in some errata.

Ben