From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:56:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:56:33 -0500 Received: from smtp08.iddeo.es ([62.81.186.18]:27889 "EHLO smtp08.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:56:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:53:50 +0100 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make i2c use initcalls everywhere Message-ID: <20021229225350.GE2259@werewolf.able.es> References: <20021229220436.A11420@lst.de> <20021229222628.GC2259@werewolf.able.es> <20021229223722.A10670@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20021229223722.A10670@infradead.org>; from hch@infradead.org on Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 23:37:22 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2002.12.29 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:26:28PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Wil this reach the i2c maintainer or the next auto-generated patch from i2c > > 2.8.x will undo what you do now and will be sized 4Gb ? > > There is no maintainer for drivers/i2c/. The only updates it every got > was me syncinc with their releases and backing out obvious braindamage. > > > Will this be accepted if I submit it, even independently of the maintainer ? > > Because I suppose (???) that maintainer is sending changes and they are going > > to trash... > > Maybe the changes the maintainers of the external i2c code are sending > _are_ trash? > (just put on the flame war suit...) Stupid question: why people on http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ is not smashed with a hammer on the head and 'morally forced' to post, comment, etc. patches on LKML ? They continue to ship releases, every vendor tracks them, and every vendor has to correct changes they have not tracked from mainline, like that old about __exit functions, and now initcalls... I really do not understand some things about Linux. Some people look like living in alternative universes... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk))