From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pawe? Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-abi] symbol versioning vs. out-of-tree modules.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:50:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DCB05F.7000902@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080924163431.GA25014@infradead.org>
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Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 05:07:59PM +0200, Pawe? Sikora wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> with out-of-tree kernel modules we (users and linux distributions)
>
> "we" aka the idiots that use out of tree modules on production systems.
Tsk. Tsk. Insults are no substitute for arguments.
> Just stop doing that, and your problem is solved.
s/solved/transformed into an even harder one/
Before throwing out something used on production systems you
have to have a working replacement solution. Yes, I know, people
are working on that, but "being worked on" != "working".
HTH
T.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-26 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 15:07 [kernel-abi] symbol versioning vs. out-of-tree modules Paweł Sikora
2008-09-24 16:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26 9:50 ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2008-09-24 19:36 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-24 21:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-25 2:48 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 6:29 ` Paweł Sikora
2008-09-25 7:49 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-09-25 8:26 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-09-25 8:52 ` el es
2008-09-25 12:54 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 13:48 ` Paweł Sikora
2008-09-25 13:54 ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 11:25 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-09-26 15:36 ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 17:19 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-09-26 20:09 ` Greg KH
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2008-09-29 6:51 Alan Young
2008-09-29 15:42 ` Greg KH
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