From: "ismail (cartman) donmez" <kde@myrealbox.com>
Organization: Bogazici University
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:22:42 +0300
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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 19:14, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Just the other day you posted strong opposition to breaking existing
> > binaries, how does that map with breaking existing hardware?
>
> One fundamental difference is that I cannot fix it without people who
> _have_ the hardware caring. So if they don't care, I don't care. It's that
> easy. If you want to have your hardware supported, you need to help
> support it.

Quite true. But there are bugs at kernel bugzilla which

1- People care about it being fixed
2- Tests beta kernels to see if its fixed
3- Reports success/failures

But still these bugs are unresolved. I do not say/mean kernel hackers do not 
care them or something like that but it would be better to get these kind of 
bugs ( with user base who tests them ) fixed before pre-2.6 releases.

Regards,
/ismail
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