Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759294AbXK0VXj (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:23:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755399AbXK0VXa (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:23:30 -0500 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:40993 "EHLO g4t0015.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754776AbXK0VX3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:23:29 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 483 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:23:29 EST Message-ID: <474C88EB.9040300@hp.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:15:23 -0800 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Dave Jones , Stephen Hemminger , Rusty Russell , Roland Dreier , Andi Kleen , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. References: <20071122343.446909000@suse.de> <200711261228.15155.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20071126102533.1c774870@freepuppy.rosehill.pdx.hemminger.net> <20071127190037.GB30057@redhat.com> <20071127210942.GF3406@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071127210942.GF3406@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 508 Lines: 13 > The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel. > > Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream? One might be that upstream has not accepted them. Anything doing or smelling of TOE comes to mind right away. rick jones - 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/