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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:58:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040214175813.GI8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402140857520.13436@home.osdl.org>

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:02:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> These things need to be done in a timely fashion, incrementally, one thing 
> at a time. Anything else does not work.
> 
> And btw, for anybody who is impacted by this: you are encouraged to help. 
> If you have a machine that works with some out-of-tree code but does 
> _not_ work with the in-tree code, send a patch that fixes JUST THAT BUG.
> 
> Because if James can't trickle them in, somebody else will have to. That's 
> what happened with the new radeon driver.

Where's James' repository, BTW?  I could help with split-and-reorder on
that one...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-14 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-14 16:50 [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-14 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-14 17:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-14 17:28     ` Dave Jones
2004-02-14 23:02       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-14 17:58   ` viro [this message]
2004-02-14 19:57     ` Paul Mundt
2004-02-14 23:04   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-16 22:49     ` James Simmons
2004-02-16 22:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-16 23:07         ` James Simmons
2004-02-16 22:44 ` James Simmons

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