Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264030AbTE0SAi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:00:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263996AbTE0R7Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 13:59:25 -0400 Received: from sweetums.bluetronic.net ([24.199.150.42]:63465 "EHLO sweetums.bluetronic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264012AbTE0R6d (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 13:58:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:09:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Ricky Beam To: Linus Torvalds cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 28 On Tue, 27 May 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ricky Beam wrote: >> >> Count up the number of drivers that haven't been updated to the current >> PCI, hotplug, and modules interfaces. > >Tough. If people don't use them, they don't get supported. It's that easy. ... Allow me to clarify... I don't mind drivers not working. I *do* mind drivers emitting hundreds of warnings and errors because dozens of things were changed and no one cared to update everything they broke. In some cases, fixing things may be simple (eg. someone removed or renamed a field in a struct somewhere) and in others years of work my be required (eg. the new module interface.) In my opinion (as it was in the long long ago), everything in a "stable" release should at least compile cleanly -- "working" comes later after users have been conned into using it. --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/