Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:19:24 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's |
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:20:32PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 09:17 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:58:06PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 23:53 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > The solution is simple: > > > > The vendor or services provider submits his driver for inclusion into > > > > the kernel which is the best solution for everyone. > > > > > > > > > > What if the driver is under development and doesn't work yet? > > > > Many drivers have been accepted into the kernel tree before they worked > > properly :) > > Yeah but I hope you can understand why someone would be hesitant to > submit a broken driver. It just makes the author look bad. I would not > feel right submitting something that didn't work.
That's what CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is for....
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