Re: CML2 [was Re: PATCH & call for help: Marking ISA only drivers]

[Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com>]

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On Thu, 9 May 2002 22:49:28 +0200
toon@vdpas.hobby.nl wrote:

> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:08:19PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
> > > found in the CML2 sources.
> > 
> > Btw, what happened to CML2?
> > I haven't seen any updates since about February and haven't almost
> > certainly stumbled upon a post from ESR for quite long either.
> 
> Eric was blasted away from the linux-kernel mailing list.
> I understand that people tend to disagree about some subject every
> once in a while. But he certainly didn't deserve the treatment he got.
> Specially considering the enormous amount of work he put in it.

Agreed. I did a lot of testing and some grunt-level coding on CML2, and
I think it addressed a lot of problems that existed, and was getting
steadily better. Sure, it had some flaky spots, but I really don't see
all of the problems that people had with it. Even autoconfig had this
tendency to do the Right Thing. I think it was just about ready to start
getting some wide testing and use, when everyone abandoned it... And now
nobody wants to use it, because of course patches don't play nice with
it, and etc... Pretty sad.

Oh well.

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