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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:28:28 -0800
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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