Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265244AbUFWOmt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:42:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265260AbUFWOlZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:41:25 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:27913 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265249AbUFWOj1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:39:27 -0400 Message-ID: <40D99A93.8030900@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:58:27 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Benedict Glaw CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Petr Vandrovec Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness References: <20040622151236.GE20632@lug-owl.de> <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org> <20040622184220.GF20632@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20040622184220.GF20632@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 27 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 18:32:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig > wrote in message <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org>: > >>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:12:36PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> >>>Just merge the vmware modules upstream. Then, such breakage will be >>>detected early and probably fixed without putting a lot of work into it >>>(from your point of view). >> >>a) vmware modules themselves aren't under a free license > > > That can be changed. Whatever it is that VMware needs in the kernel can probably be generalized in some way that makes it useful to other things (like Win4Lin) and then merged into mainline. - 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/