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From: Daniele Orlandi <daniele@orlandi.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Request for an ARPHRD_
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510250058.24561.daniele@orlandi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051024222222.GA11005@xi.wantstofly.org>

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 00:22, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>
> Your code might never end up in the kernel at all, for example if you
> ever lose interest in it.  The situation that we'd like to avoid is
> ending up with reserved constants for code that was never submitted
> upstream at all.

Okay, I see your point.

IMHO I'd have preferred a more open politic like libpcap's. There may be valid 
reasons to keep code out of the tree and this makes maintenance even harder 
to perform than it already is.

Thanks anyway,

Bye,

-- 
  Daniele Orlandi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-24 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200510240255.28416.daniele@orlandi.com>
     [not found] ` <200510241807.23290.ak@suse.de>
2005-10-24 21:33   ` Request for an ARPHRD_ Daniele Orlandi
2005-10-24 21:51     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-10-24 22:08       ` Daniele Orlandi
2005-10-24 22:22         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-10-24 22:58           ` Daniele Orlandi [this message]
2005-10-24 22:24     ` Andi Kleen

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