Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 14:35:38 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:28 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> I meant the ipmi, smbus and copa modules by Fujitsu-Siemens. > > They are provided in source form, but I just found out (reading the > headers and not just the lines that broke the compile) they are not open > source. Perhaps one should prod them to slap a modified-BSD or perhaps > GPL label onto their modules.
is there an URL to these?
> > It seems you'd then maintain them after their submission? :-)
usually such modules are extremely low maintenance once merged.... There are many many drivers without a maintainer, and they still get fixed.
> > It's rare even in the 2.6 tree to mass-break well written drivers. Just > > because it's a lot of work to fix all in kernel drivers up. But a fully > > stable API is also not good. My guess is that the drivers that break > > most are the ones using the not-right APIs (eg internals and such). > > These use inter_module_get()
which is still there even in the latest 2.6.15-rc. It should be going out but hasn't yet. And that is the case for at least a year (eg they are __deprecated but still there).
> and some #include headers that have moved around between > linux and asm directories.
Most of those were already in the final place with a temporary compat header in the old one I guess. But if this is all.... that really isn't a big deal. I suspect some of these headers aren't even used by the driver (sometimes people just include the world for no reason)..
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