Re: [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 04:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > <rant>
> > James, what about pushing the 2GB worth of fbdev driver fixes in your
> > tree to Linus so people actually get working fb support again instead
> > of adding new holes?
> 
> Sorry, but at this point I WOULD NOT EVEN TAKE IT ANY MORE.
> 
> That's just how I work: if somebody maintains his own tree and builds up a 
> lot of patches, that's _his_ problem. I'm not going to replace things 
> totally unless there is some really fundamental reason I would have to. 
> And quite frankly, the most common "fundamental reason" is that the 
> maintainer has not done his job.
> 
> I want controlled patches that do one thing at a time. Not a 2GB untested 
> dump.

I'll send you/andrew individually the drivers I control and the ones I
already fixed in james tree (5 or 6 drivers)

James: The fbcon & cursor changes must get in asap. There are races that
I fixed, without the changes, those races will be in 2.6.3.

Ben.