On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:49:09 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:05:31AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > > The original first commit had added 'BROKEN', although currently there > > are no explanations about it in the tree. > > commit c0dde7404aff064bff46ae1d5f1584d38e30c3bf > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Aug 17 21:23:57 2003 -0700 > > Add CONFIG_BROKEN (default 'n') to hide known-broken drivers. Thanks. That was unkind of someone. How's this? From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text Date: Mon Jul 14 05:20:02 PM PDT 2025 Linus added it in 2003, it later was removed. Put it back. Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/init/Kconfig~a +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ menu "General setup" config BROKEN bool + help + This option allows you to choose whether you want to try to + compile (and fix) old drivers that haven't been updated to + new infrastructure. config BROKEN_ON_SMP bool _
