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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:32:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT
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On 14 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> That makes driver debugging almost impossible. It also makes building a
> test kernel set for a lot of boxes impractical. The completely broken
> unload stuff is going to be a real pig, PCMCIA only works modular and
> doesn't work now the unloads are all broken.

Yeah, I forgot about the old 16-bit pcmcia crud. Ugh. At least 32-bit 
cardbus works fine.

> The biggest need though is documentation so people can actually fix all
> the drivers for this stuff.

I think Al convinced Rusty that most drivers don't need to worry and that
Rusty was a bit over-eager (ie sound, much of char, all of block and fs
should all be handled by upper layers without the races)

I think Rusty has most of the pieces, but he's apparently flying around 
the world right now ;)

		Linus

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