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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:59:02 -0500
From: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>>http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/ppc64/ibmveth.patch
>>
>>The patch applies against the 2.4.25-pre6 tree...
> 
> 
> Usually patches are subitted inline to ease review..
> 

That was my original intention, however section 4, question 1 in the FAQ 
states:
"If your patch is on the large size (say larger than 500 lines) consider 
posting a URL pointing to the patch along with the patch description, 
instead of the whole patch."
This patch was 1300+ lines.

> I think we shouldn't accept new drivers in 2.4 anymore unless they're
> already in 2.6

Sure, it makes sense... I just wanted to get this driver out since the 
2.4 tree has some architectural features that 2.6 doesn't have yet... 
I'm not sure how those features made it to 2.4 before 2.6 though!...

-- 
Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center
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