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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?"

  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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