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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:08 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] AI support (13/14 ssb add AI support)
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On 02/18/2011 05:27 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 01:07 +0200, George Kashperko wrote:
>> Starting from the clean page means another months of no support for
>> AI-based hw.
>
> Oh, wait a second right here. That's not how Linux development works.
> We want the technically superior solution, not just something that
> works to get stuff working no matter what.
>
> If your patchset works, that's pretty cool. So thanks a lot for getting
> something to the users that works. Nothing stops distributions from
> picking up those patches and distributing it to endusers.
> That doesn't mean we have to adopt it to the mainline, though.

I don't want to get involved in the debate over abstraction, but FWIW, the 
patchset does work for PCI-based SSB devices.

Larry