On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:21:15PM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote:
> Hi Greg, all,
>
> > Ok, but wasn't it possible to get those additional things added to the
> > main kernel serial core, which would then provide everything that
> Digi's
> > customers are accustomed to?
>
> Yes, it is my intention in the future to add support for the needed
> information,
> probably at the /sys level.
> The key is to be able to get at the tty information without
> having to open up the tty/port.
>
> Again, I understand why you required the changes in JSM,
> IBM didn't need DPA support, so I had no problem with removing the
> support.
>
> However, neither IBM nor Digi wants this thread's patch to be applied,
> and yet Christoph wants to do it, completely out of spite, to break our
> out-of-tree open source driver.
The problem is that your "out-of-tree open source driver" is an
inadequate solution. Out of tree drivers are a pain for users,
developers, and distributors. As such, we make very little allowance
for their concerns, especially when they stand in the way of improving
things that _are_ in the kernel.
The proposed patch makes the in-tree driver work for hardware that it
didn't before which is a net good for our users. The ball is now in
your court: replace it with an acceptable version of your driver in a
timely fashion. Saying you'll get around to it some day when you're
done supporting 2.4 is not timely. Nor does it serve your users.
Alternately, provide a good reason not to include said patch without
reference to might-as-well-not-exist-as-far-as-we're-concerned out of
tree drivers or the similarly irrelevant wishes of nebulous corporate
entities.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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