From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934956AbXGRVcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:32:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758421AbXGRVbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:31:53 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:52787 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755072AbXGRVbw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:31:52 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:28:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Adrian Bunk cc: Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Gabriel C , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus In-Reply-To: <20070718210903.GM3801@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <469E75AA.7040109@pimpmylinux.org> <20070718134012.cde2f956.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <469E7BE1.6090401@garzik.org> <20070718210903.GM3801@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > If you are not doing it, noone might do it. And discusing > improvements noone will implement is somehow pointless... sure, i'm willing to help, but i don't think doing *nothing* about it is an option. you may not like gabriel's proposed patch, but you have to admit that he has a valid objection that should be addressed. so you can address it the manual and brute force way, or you can invest a little more time and do it right. but, either way, i think you have to deal with it. now it's just time to make a choice. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================