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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:10:53 +0200
From: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux?
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Hi Russell!

> And as final proof, the solution taken by two embedded companies is
> to develop two completely separate cs89x0 driver from the existing one
> (and then pick one/merge them) rather than fixing stuff in the way
> suggested by Alan.

Hey, the original cs89x0 driver were just too ugly to actually work on -
It was much more productive to just start from scratch (;

--=20

Regards
 Abraham

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	-- Somewhere on IRC, inspired by Shakespeare

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