Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:20:16 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: warnings in git-wireless
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:12:03PM -0700, James Ketrenos wrote:
> Yes, we certainly don't want a driver to be "near mainline" that does 
> things that the rest of the kernel and other drivers are doing.  We should 
> force them to stay out-of-tree until any and everything is resolved.  
> Heaven forbid that the code should be merged, contributed, and improved 
> upon as a community.
> 
> You'd think these guys were trying to enable folks with a driver so they 
> can use the hardware they bought or something.  Its almost laughable.  What 
> idiots.

Maybe you should make sure your companies publishes specs or useable drivers
earlier, and you should stop writing crap code instead of these hypocritical 
comments.  We're a big project and we need to be up to some standards before
we can put code in that we'll have to maintain then.

> 
> James
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