Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07T18:28:32Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> /For you/ it's certainly no big deal, you dont have to fix it up and you
> dont have to keep it flexible ;)
>

How flexible does it need to be? Its a simple time source and event
driver. How flexible does the pit driver need to be? It's just a small
leaf node hanging off a large existing piece of kernel infrastructure.

> and really, i'm not expecting miracles, i've never seen any hardware
> vendor argue /against/ support for their own hardware =B-)
>

And since when has it been kernel policy to argue against including a
well written, self-contained, vendor-provided driver for a piece of
hardware?

J