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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:29:23 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > If and when I step down as maintainer (if I do so, I'll publically
> > pass the baton to the new maintainer), the new maintainer can indent
> > to their preference. Until that time, *I'm* the maintainer, and *I*
> > need to be able to read the code efficiently. It's the part of the
> > kernel I spend the most time in, after all.
> 
> I wasnt aware mtrr.c had an active maintainer.

According to changelog nothing substantive since March 1999.


> > "He who writes the code gets to choose".
> 
> How about he who has to decipher the whole mess to add things...

At least one person actually Lindent's mtrr.c, modifies, tests, and then
backports changes into un-Lindent'd mtrr.c.  Ug.

	Jeff


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