Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:04, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On November 26, 2002 12:35 pm, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> > So how would you deal with somebody contributing bogus mappings?
> > What if somebody was just wrong, or uploading a mapping in error?
> 
> The same applies to the kernel code, or any other open source project:
> How do you deal with somebody contributing bogus code?
> 
> Somehow things work out, as we have already witnessed.

For boards its not that simple. Many vendors release multiple utterly
different machines with the same box, bios and ident. The customer is
told "IDE CD, 100mbit ethernet", the customer gets random cheapest going
ethernet.

Alan