Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:04:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:04:00 -0500 Received: from ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu ([192.17.19.210]:10000 "EHLO ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:03:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:01:08 -0600 From: Bill Wendling To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10) Message-ID: <20001103160108.D16644@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001103202911.A2979@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <200011031937.WAA10753@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200011031937.WAA10753@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:37:45PM +0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Also sprach kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru: } > de4x5 is probably also buggy in regard to this. } } de4x5 is hopeless. I added nice comment in softnet to it. } Unfortunately it was lost. 8) } } Andi, neither you nor me nor Alan nor anyone are able to audit } all this unnevessarily overcomplicated code. It was buggy, is buggy } and will be buggy. It is inavoidable, as soon as you have hundreds } of drivers. } If they are buggy and unsupported, why aren't they being expunged from the main source tree and placed into a ``contrib'' directory or something for people who may want those drivers? -- || Bill Wendling wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/