Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964983AbXBYQON (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964980AbXBYQON (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:14:13 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:43826 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964976AbXBYQOM (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:14:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:14:11 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Stephens, Allan" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jon Maloy , per.liden@ericsson.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups Message-ID: <20070225161411.GX12392@stusta.de> References: <20070223221657.GA10153@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 34 On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:19:19PM -0800, Stephens, Allan wrote: >... > 2) There are portions of TIPC's native API which are intended for use by > driver programmers, but which are not being used by any code that is > currently in the kernel. While removing these API's from TIPC will only > impact these "freeloaders", it has the potential to discourage future > programmers who *do* want to contribute their work to the kernel by > removing API's that are apparently necessary/useful when doing coding of > this sort. It can be re-added at any time when an in-kernel user comes. But the most interesting question is: Why is noone interested in getting his TIPC using drivers merged? > Regards, > Al >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/