From: "Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>" 
	<7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: RE: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2  jsm driver
To: Kilau@arcor-online.net, Scott <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Ihalainen Nickolay <ihanic@dev.ehouse.ru>, admin@list.net.ru,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wen Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:21:39 +0200
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Kilau, Scott <Scott_Kilau@digi.com> wrote:

> However, neither IBM nor Digi wants this thread's patch to be applied,
> and yet Christoph wants to do it, completely out of spite, to break our
> out-of-tree open source driver.
> 
> This is the problem that I have.

I think you should supply a patch that makes the in-kernel driver print a
short notice about your other driver. E.g.
----
The foo driver is a stripped-down version of the bar driver. To get the
additional configuration and diagnosis infrastructure, see the
instructions on url.
----
-- 
Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say:
49. What's this switch for anyways...?
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