From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.3rc4 ali1535 i2c driver rmmod oops.
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:34:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218043432.GX8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218040252.GJ6242@redhat.com>
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:02:52AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:00:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > > I felt masochistic, so decided to 'see what would happen' when I ran this..
> > Whee. Fun. Do you actually have the hardware for it, or did it blow up
> > even without any supported hardware?
>
> -ENOHARDWARE.
> Judging by the number of bugs this has thrown up, not many folks test the
> 'try a driver without the hardware' paths too often.
Hell, yes. You should've seen the crap fixed by NE* patches in drivers/net/* -
it certainly looks like the common mindset is "if this miserable box can't,
for whatever reason, run My Driver(tm) - why the fuck does it dare to exist?"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-18 3:15 Dave Jones
2004-02-18 3:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 3:49 ` Dave Jones
2004-02-18 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 4:02 ` Dave Jones
2004-02-18 4:34 ` viro [this message]
2004-02-18 4:01 ` Greg KH
2004-02-18 4:17 ` Dave Jones
2004-02-21 7:19 ` Jean Delvare
2004-02-24 0:27 ` Greg KH
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