On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Stuff outside the kernel is almost always either (a) experimental stuff > > > that just isn't ready to be merged or (b) tries to avoid the GPL. > > > > (c) So damn specialized that it's not worth even trying to merge. > > Or drivers for highly specialised/customised hardware. that's not really an excuse.. there's drivers in the tree for which only 4 boards ever existed. There still is value in having those in the tree, if only for the "other side" of the API to be able to see usage patterns... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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