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 18:11:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:11:57 -0500 Received: from falcon.vispa.uk.net ([62.24.228.11]:6666 "EHLO falcon.vispa.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:11:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3E0F830F.9040203@walrond.org> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:19:43 +0000 From: Andrew Walrond User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" CC: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make i2c use initcalls everywhere References: <20021229220436.A11420@lst.de> <20021229222628.GC2259@werewolf.able.es> <20021229223722.A10670@infradead.org> <20021229225350.GE2259@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Agreed. I would love to see the i2c and lmsensor stuff properly maintained in the kernel tree; It would save a whole lot of dicking around. Pretty please? ;) J.A. Magallon wrote: > 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... >