Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755429AbXJ3NUk (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753355AbXJ3NUd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:20:33 -0400 Received: from smtp27.orange.fr ([80.12.242.94]:4709 "EHLO smtp27.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752901AbXJ3NUb (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:20:31 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20071030132029891.D99631C00095@mwinf2701.orange.fr Subject: Re: eradicating out of tree modules From: Xavier Bestel To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Tilman Schmidt , Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , Simon Arlott , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , James Morris , Crispin Cowan , Giacomo Catenazzi , Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: <20071024125533.GE30533@stusta.de> <471F8AC5.9080300@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20071024223124.GI30533@stusta.de> <4721221A.1020309@imap.cc> <20071026025647.GC21408@kroah.com> <4721B77F.8070102@imap.cc> <20071026232653.GF30533@stusta.de> <47234F73.3040809@imap.cc> <20071028005555.GC23339@stusta.de> <4724DA20.1010609@imap.cc> <20071028192528.GF7227@stusta.de> <47267ADD.2030202@imap.cc> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:19:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1193750368.21628.28.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-27) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:11 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > I'm sure that the majority of Linux users would never acquire > the 4-board assembly that we use to acquire X-Ray data and > generate real-time images for the baggage scanners in use > at the world's major airports. That assembly, containing > numerous CPUs and other high-speed pipelined stuff would > cost the user about US$100,000 so I'm pretty sure that > are not many takers so it is very unlikely that any modules > to support it would never get into the mainstream kernel. As long as you're maintaining them proprely, I don't why. Xav - 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/