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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:18:55 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:06:35AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The other related question is device driver implementation stuff (not interfaces
> and abstractions). You don't seem to check that much anyway, or have any taste
> in device drivers 8) so should that be part of the small fixing job ?

I've often dreamt of an overall "drivers maintainer" or perhaps just an
unmaintained-drivers maintainer:  a person with taste who could give
driver patches a glance, when noone else does.
(and no I'm not volunteering :))

	Jeff, dreams on



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