From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265950AbUFTVOS (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:14:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265951AbUFTVN7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:13:59 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:49628 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265950AbUFTVLy (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:11:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:11:43 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeremy Cc: Jeff Garzik , Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , Linus , linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC64 iSeries viodasd proc file Message-ID: <20040620211143.GA8368@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeremy , Jeff Garzik , Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , Linus , linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, LKML References: <20040618165436.193d5d35.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <40D305B4.4030009@pobox.com> <20040618151753.GA21596@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:52:33PM -0400, Jeremy wrote: > It was in the tree for the platform, not just vendor trees. ie, > anyone who wanted to use the platform with Linux would have had this > functionality. If you'd argue that people shouldn't do that, then how > are platforms supposed to get to a point where they can be included in > the mainline tree? Doesn't matter. There was a really crappy 2.4 driver that IBM didn't even bother to submit. So for us it simply doesn't matter it existed. Stop whining and ensure you're employer doesn't apply broken IBM patches instead.