From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:07:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114040920.AFB7E2C0EC@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:32:31 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131828480.6810-100000@home.transmeta.com>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131828480.6810-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri
te:
>
> > The biggest need though is documentation so people can actually fix all
> > the drivers for this stuff.
>
> I think Al convinced Rusty that most drivers don't need to worry and that
> Rusty was a bit over-eager (ie sound, much of char, all of block and fs
> should all be handled by upper layers without the races)
Not really. The Kernel Summit and an audit of drivers convinced me
that changing every driver simply wasn't feasible.
*You* convinced me not to break any driver source code: every time you
dropped my patches I went back and implemented another compat macro 8)
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 0:02 module mess in -CURRENT Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 0:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-14 1:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 2:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 2:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-14 5:07 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-11-14 4:36 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 14:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 18:54 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-14 4:06 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] <20021114000206.A8245@infradead.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131655580.6810-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-14 10:19 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-14 17:32 ` John Alvord
2002-11-14 17:40 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-14 18:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-14 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15 0:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-15 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-15 3:38 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15 18:26 ` Kai Henningsen
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