Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:30:36 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
       Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
       Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
       Thomas Fricaccia <thomas_fricacci@yahoo.com>,
       Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
       Crispin Cowan <crispin@crispincowan.com>,
       Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: eradicating out of tree modules
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:11:11AM -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.

Of course it would be accepted, hell, we have a whole sub-architecture
with what, 3 users?  :)

So please submit patches for your drivers, and we will be glad to review
them.

thanks,

greg k-h
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