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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>,
	Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:39:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114133911.B17522@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020114131050.E14747@thyrsus.com> <E16QCH4-0002XB-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16QCH4-0002XB-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:56:02PM +0000

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Yowza...so how soon is [the end of hard-compiled drivers] supposed to 
> > happen?
> 
> Subject to availability. No contract implied or etc.. Its something to
> tackle after the rest of initramfs works.

Dang.  This will make the CML2 inference engine work better in some
funky corner cases, too.  And its behavior will be easier to
understand all around.

Sign me up.  This will be a good change; I like it when I can make things
better by taking features *out* of my code.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of
the barrel of a gun.'
        -- Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-14 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.dardpev.1m1emjp@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-14 10:14 ` ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-14 16:16   ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 16:38     ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-14 16:34       ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 17:48     ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 17:55       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 18:08         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:10           ` Hardwired drivers are going away? Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 18:50             ` David Lang
2002-01-14 19:04               ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:57                 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 19:03                   ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-01-14 19:21                   ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 10:45                   ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-15 11:13                     ` crispin
2002-01-15 14:25                     ` David Lang
2002-01-14 19:00                 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:17                   ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 19:14                     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:37                       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 20:28                         ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:44                     ` David Lang
2002-01-14 20:09                       ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 20:49                         ` Chris Friesen
2002-01-14 20:55                           ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 20:51                       ` Ian Molton
2002-01-14 22:11                         ` David Lang
2002-01-14 23:12                           ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-14 23:17                             ` David Lang
2002-01-14 23:22                           ` Ian Molton
2002-01-15  0:40                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 19:54                     ` David Lang
2002-01-15 17:27                     ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 17:47                       ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 19:48                       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-18 12:39                   ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-18 22:20                     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-18 23:22                       ` Keith Owens
2002-01-20 23:20                         ` Frank van de Pol
2002-01-21  0:54                           ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-21  3:49                             ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-21  4:45                               ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-21  5:12                                 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-21  1:06                         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-21  1:07                           ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-21  1:30                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21  1:53                               ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21  2:04                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21  2:25                                   ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21  2:56                                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21  3:43                                       ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21  4:24                                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21  3:44                                     ` yodaiken
2002-01-21 20:57                                       ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-21  2:13                                 ` John Levon
2002-01-21  2:31                                   ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21 23:52                                     ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-01-21  9:34                               ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-21 14:29                                 ` John Levon
2002-01-21  1:31                           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-14 19:27               ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 17:24               ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 18:17                 ` David Lang
2002-01-15 19:25                   ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 19:44                 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-14 18:54             ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 18:56             ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:39               ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-14 19:09             ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 14:19               ` Rob Landley
2002-01-14 22:33                 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 11:35                 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-15 15:34                   ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-14 19:24               ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 20:17               ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 14:57                 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-14 20:51                 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 22:18                 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-15 19:20                 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-16  9:00                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:12               ` Rusty Russell
2002-02-09  0:19             ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-14 17:59       ` ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 18:35         ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <20020115025840.11509.qmail@science.horizon.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-01-15 12:16 ` Hardwired drivers are going away? Andi Kleen
2002-01-15  2:58 peter
2002-01-15 12:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 12:39   ` David S. Miller
2002-01-15 18:39     ` Rob Landley
     [not found] <mailman.1011034621.1626.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-01-14 23:33 ` Pete Zaitcev
     [not found] <fa.g055bvv.qmq0hk@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <ksahkuv.tg60gl@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-14 22:22   ` Chris Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-05  0:39 module unresolved symbols rich+ml
2001-08-05  0:49 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-08-05  0:51 ` Steven Walter
2001-08-05  1:48 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-05 16:06   ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-06 11:18     ` Keith Owens

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