From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262914AbTJPS2r (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:28:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263055AbTJPS2r (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:28:47 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:18693 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262914AbTJPS2q (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:28:46 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 & test6 cd burning/scheduler/ide-scsi.c bug Date: 16 Oct 2003 18:18:47 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1066328327 18063 192.168.12.62 (16 Oct 2003 18:18:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Mark W. Alexander wrote: | The first problem is that those applications need to be notified that | "the times, they are a changin'." I suggest you submit bug reports to | them so they can at least fail hard and be given time to prepare for | the 2.6 way. Would it not be better to fix the kernel rather than try to get the authors of every application to add a Linux-only fix? And expect every future application to be written for Linux and the rest of the world? -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.