Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: module mess in -CURRENT | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:07:42 +1100 |
| |
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131828480.6810-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri te: > > > The biggest need though is documentation so people can actually fix all > > the drivers for this stuff. > > I think Al convinced Rusty that most drivers don't need to worry and that > Rusty was a bit over-eager (ie sound, much of char, all of block and fs > should all be handled by upper layers without the races)
Not really. The Kernel Summit and an audit of drivers convinced me that changing every driver simply wasn't feasible.
*You* convinced me not to break any driver source code: every time you dropped my patches I went back and implemented another compat macro 8)
Cheers, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |