From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267069AbUBEXXx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:23:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267058AbUBEXWL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:22:11 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:8678 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266895AbUBEXUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:20:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:19:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: "Tillier, Fabian" , Chris Friesen , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hozer@hozed.org, "Woodruff, Robert J" , "Magro, Bill" , woody@jf.intel.com, infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel Message-ID: <20040205231932.GA17377@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:26:46PM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote: > Personally, I'm amazed that professional developers have to discuss or > defend modular, portable code. And I can't believe that I have to defend the current Linux kernel implementation of its modular and portable code to more platforms than you can shake a stick at. Who wants to work with who here? > Once the code has been submitted, then specific implementation problems > can be dealt with. Great, when is this going to happen? I think I'm not going to respond anymore to this thread until I see some actual code. That's what I get for trying to point out problems before they happen... greg k-h