From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262603AbUBNR6P (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:58:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262686AbUBNR6P (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:58:15 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:62639 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262603AbUBNR6O (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:58:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:58:13 +0000 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support Message-ID: <20040214175813.GI8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040214165037.GA15985@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:02:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > These things need to be done in a timely fashion, incrementally, one thing > at a time. Anything else does not work. > > And btw, for anybody who is impacted by this: you are encouraged to help. > If you have a machine that works with some out-of-tree code but does > _not_ work with the in-tree code, send a patch that fixes JUST THAT BUG. > > Because if James can't trickle them in, somebody else will have to. That's > what happened with the new radeon driver. Where's James' repository, BTW? I could help with split-and-reorder on that one...