From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
rolandd@cisco.com, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141977431.2876.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141966693.14517.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com>
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:58 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > They are in the latest -mm tree if you wish to use them. Unfortunatly
> > it might look like they will not work out, due to the per-cpu relay
> > files not working properly with Paul's patches at the moment.
>
> Hmm, OK.
>
> > What's wrong with debugfs?
>
> It's not configured into the kernels of either of the distros I use (Red
> Hat or SUSE). I can't have a required part of my driver depend on a
> feature that's not enabled in the major distro kernels.
sucks to be you, however I think it's equally or even more unacceptable
to cripple the main kernel because you want to also support antique
kernels (those more than 12 months old). The general rule is "if you
want to support that, do it outside the kernel.org tree".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-03-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:32 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:35 ` Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver) Greg KH
2006-03-10 0:46 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 1:00 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 4:58 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 6:34 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 15:53 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-10 7:57 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-03-10 13:51 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 14:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 15:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 16:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 16:36 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 16:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 16:25 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-10 16:35 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 16:48 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 16:49 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 15:55 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-10 13:58 ` [openib-general] " Talpey, Thomas
2006-03-09 23:46 ` [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver Greg KH
2006-03-09 23:48 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:59 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 1:02 ` Greg KH
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