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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
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Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:32:31 -0800."
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131828480.6810-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri
te:
> 
> > 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)

Not really.  The Kernel Summit and an audit of drivers convinced me
that changing every driver simply wasn't feasible.

*You* convinced me not to break any driver source code: every time you
dropped my patches I went back and implemented another compat macro 8)

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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