linux-kernel - Re: Arm Compiler - Part 1 of Compiling Tests

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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:10:04 -0400
From:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Arm Compiler - Part 1 of Compiling Tests

I do known what they mean. It's good work for a long time
that isn't getting worked on therefore it seems good for
me to work on.
Cheers Nick

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 13:35 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> On the other hand there seems to be too many FIXMEs in the main
>> kernel for one person to fix.
>
> A quick grep for FIXMEs (also including the "XXX" pattern, which
> basically means the same thing) triggers over 7000 hits. Even with a
> (rather optimistic) one hour per FIXME that's over three years of work
> (assuming a sane working hours/year metric).
>
> Moreover, you appear to misunderstand the meaning of these FIXMEs. It's
> not a marker for something trivial that somehow never got done. It might
> actually mean all kind of things. In many cases it points at a hard, or
> time consuming, etc., problem that no one has yet found a way, or the
> time, to fix properly.
>
> I would not advise someone new to the kernel to grep for FIXMEs to see
> if they could contribute something. There are many things those people
> could do, but those FIXMEs seem an awkward place to start.
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
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