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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: warnings in git-wireless
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:20:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606072016.GA4805@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4665C393.2000507@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:12:03PM -0700, James Ketrenos wrote:
> Yes, we certainly don't want a driver to be "near mainline" that does 
> things that the rest of the kernel and other drivers are doing.  We should 
> force them to stay out-of-tree until any and everything is resolved.  
> Heaven forbid that the code should be merged, contributed, and improved 
> upon as a community.
> 
> You'd think these guys were trying to enable folks with a driver so they 
> can use the hardware they bought or something.  Its almost laughable.  What 
> idiots.

Maybe you should make sure your companies publishes specs or useable drivers
earlier, and you should stop writing crap code instead of these hypocritical 
comments.  We're a big project and we need to be up to some standards before
we can put code in that we'll have to maintain then.

> 
> James
> -
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05  9:06 warnings in git-wireless Andrew Morton
     [not found] ` <20070605020614.3f06b2ab.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-05 11:57   ` John W. Linville
     [not found]     ` <20070605115701.GA5391-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-05 20:12       ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-05 23:26         ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06  7:20         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-06-06 14:14           ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-06 20:51 ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-06 23:35   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20070606163534.6a6cffb7.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 22:33       ` James Ketrenos
2007-06-07  1:04         ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  1:13           ` Dave Jones
2007-06-07  0:00       ` Randy Dunlap

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