From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] small IPMI cleanup
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:24:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099938282.3577.21.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418FB0EA.90006@mvista.com>
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:46 -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> All these things are tools used by external modules that have not yet
> made it into the mainstream kernel.
is there an ETA for those to go in ?
> Also, there are other users of
> these functions that are perhaps not in the kernel yet (and perhaps
> never make it into the mainstream kernel).
well... is it really worth it to bloat all the kernels out there for
some obscure thing that apparently isn't useful enough to be in the main
kernel or even to be submitted for it...
Sounds rather like it's better to remove those from the kernel, or at least #if 0 them if you really really insist.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-06 22:28 Adrian Bunk
2004-11-08 17:46 ` Corey Minyard
2004-11-08 18:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-08 18:23 ` Corey Minyard
2004-11-08 21:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-08 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-11-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
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