Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: userspace breakage | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:30:30 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 09:33 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > Stuff outside the kernel is almost always either (a) experimental stuff > > > > that just isn't ready to be merged or (b) tries to avoid the GPL. > > > > > > (c) So damn specialized that it's not worth even trying to merge. > > > > Or drivers for highly specialised/customised hardware. > > that's not really an excuse.. there's drivers in the tree for which only > 4 boards ever existed. There still is value in having those in the tree, > if only for the "other side" of the API to be able to see usage > patterns...
Yeah, but maybe Andrew isn't even talking about those boards. I know when I worked for Lockheed, they had a bunch of custom boards that were for one specific project. There would really be no point in pushing a driver into the mainline that is used by one board for one project.
But then again, I'm not Andrew, and maybe he _is_ talking about the drivers used by only four boards.
-- Steve
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