[U-Boot-Users] What if eth_init() fails?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Nov 14 18:00:03 CET 2007


On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so by fixing one bug, you may expose other bugs, and that's a bad thing ?
> >  bad code has gotta go !
>
> My point was that if you fix this bug, you should be prepared for other
> bugs to show up, and people to be surprised about it.  Don't just fix the
> first bug and walk away.  If you can't test all the other platforms, then
> you should at least pay attention when other people report the other bugs,
> and then help them out.

i'd say it is the fault of those platforms for having bad code in the first 
place ... cant reasonably expect Upakul to audit and fix everyone's mistakes.
-mike
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