From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262433AbVAPFjj (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:39:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262434AbVAPFjj (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:39:39 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.238]:55559 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262433AbVAPFjf (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:39:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:38:30 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , ak@suse.de, mst@mellanox.co.il, tiwai@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, gordon.jin@intel.com, VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix: macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl Message-ID: <20050116023830.A22646@almesberger.net> References: <20050105144043.GB19434@mellanox.co.il> <20050105133448.59345b04.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106140636.GE25629@mellanox.co.il> <20050112203606.GA23307@mellanox.co.il> <20050112212954.GA13558@kroah.com> <20050112214326.GB14703@wotan.suse.de> <20050112225230.GA14590@kroah.com> <20050112151049.7473db7d.akpm@osdl.org> <20050112231630.GB15085@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050112231630.GB15085@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:16:30PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Cc:s trimmed a little ] Greg KH wrote: > Sorry, the "policy" I was referring to was the "out-of-the-tree drivers > are on their own" statement. Not the use of the HAVE macros. Not all users of kernel code are in- or out-of-tree drivers and the like. E.g. tcsim (from tcng.sf.net) grabs substantial portions of the traffic control and netlink code and merges them with user space. It also tries to be compatible with most 2.4 kernels. For feature tests, I use basically anything that doesn't run away quickly enough. And I'm sure you want none of *that* kind of code anywhere near mainline ;-) Not that I currently have more troubles with it than usually. I just want to point out that there are other, strange but legitimate (at least in the "all shall eventually be GPL" sense) users of the kernel, who don't mind a friendly environment. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/