Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:08:04 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear > > a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved." > > and > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > > so it *IS* gpl licensed! > > the code is a bit horrible though and no surprise it breaks ;)
Yes. "extern type foo; static type foo;" is way stupid, but 10% of the blame can be shifted on the GCC guys for being much too tolerant.
> you can always make drivers broken enough to break at the slightest > change ;) > > (it also seems to contain an entire ipmi layer, linux already has one so > I wonder why they're not just using that as basis)
Perhaps the dates give a clue. Since when has Linux had IPMI in the baseline code?
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