From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: warnings in git-wireless
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:20:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606072016.GA4805@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4665C393.2000507@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:12:03PM -0700, James Ketrenos wrote:
> Yes, we certainly don't want a driver to be "near mainline" that does
> things that the rest of the kernel and other drivers are doing. We should
> force them to stay out-of-tree until any and everything is resolved.
> Heaven forbid that the code should be merged, contributed, and improved
> upon as a community.
>
> You'd think these guys were trying to enable folks with a driver so they
> can use the hardware they bought or something. Its almost laughable. What
> idiots.
Maybe you should make sure your companies publishes specs or useable drivers
earlier, and you should stop writing crap code instead of these hypocritical
comments. We're a big project and we need to be up to some standards before
we can put code in that we'll have to maintain then.
>
> James
> -
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 9:06 warnings in git-wireless Andrew Morton
2007-06-05 9:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-05 11:57 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-05 11:57 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-05 20:12 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-05 20:12 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-05 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-06-06 14:14 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-06 20:51 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-06 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 22:33 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-06 22:33 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-07 1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 1:13 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-07 0:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-07 0:00 ` Randy Dunlap
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