Subject: Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20]
	ipath - sysfs support for core driver)
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       rolandd@cisco.com, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:24:52 +0100
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On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 07:55 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:06 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > > They mightn't be exactly today's kernels, but they're no more than two
> > > or three weeks old.  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS has been in the kernel for a long
> > > time, and it's still not being picked up.
> > 
> > but it's a module; you can ship it no problem yourself if you go through
> > the hell of shipping external modules
> 
> Yes, we can ship it ourselves.  But a significant point of this exercise
> is to have the drivers be available to people who use unmodified
> distros, and don't want to download other bits to do so.

well shipping one .ko or two .ko's... same difference. Or maybe in your
case it's a 4->5 transition. No Difference from a user point of view.


So sorry I'm not buying your argument very much.


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