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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy <jeremy.katz@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC64 iSeries viodasd proc file
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:11:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040620211143.GA8368@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb5afee1040620125272ab9f06@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:52:33PM -0400, Jeremy wrote:
> It was in the tree for the platform, not just vendor trees.  ie,
> anyone who wanted to use the platform with Linux would have had this
> functionality.  If you'd argue that people shouldn't do that, then how
> are platforms supposed to get to a point where they can be included in
> the mainline tree?

Doesn't matter.  There was a really crappy 2.4 driver that IBM didn't
even bother to submit.  So for us it simply doesn't matter it existed.

Stop whining and ensure you're employer doesn't apply broken IBM patches
instead.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-20 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-18  6:54 [PATCH] PPC64 iSeries viodasd proc file Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-18 15:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 15:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-20 19:52     ` Jeremy
2004-06-20 21:11       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-21  6:04       ` Greg KH
     [not found]         ` <cb5afee10406210914451dc6@mail.gmail.com>
2004-06-23 21:15           ` Jeremy Katz
2004-06-23 21:45             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 22:03             ` Greg KH
2004-06-24  0:38               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-24 20:59                 ` Greg KH
2004-06-24 21:25                   ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-23 23:54 Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-23 23:55 ` Greg KH

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