Re: Hang problem on Tyan K7 Thunder resolved -- SB Live! heads-up

Alan Cox
2001-08-12T22:28:51Z

> But later there was a patch from maintainer (Rui Sousa). Besides, there were no
> updates from maintainers for over a year, so I think "non maintainer" did a good
> thing - at least maintainers started to send patches finally. Instead of backing out
> I suggest for maintainers to send more patches...

I've got an even better idea. Its called making major problematic device
changes and debugging them in _UNSTABLE_ kernel trees - like waiting until
2.5 starts. Otherwise 2.4 will never be stable.

Its one thing to take something like the early USB in a stable kernel and
update it because it certainly won't make it worse, and another to update
an emu10k1 driver that worked with one that doesn't work, needs different
user tools and locks all SMP boxes.

Alan