kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
08/21/02 07:13 PM
> Hello!
> > What about implementing your alternative proposal in 2.5 and to use
> > the current approach in a next 2.4.x kernel?
> I do not see any good reasons to do this differently.
> Alexey
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
08/21/02 11:55 PM
> From: "Andreas Herrmann" <AHERRMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:00:39 +0200
> > In this way we are guaranteed not to have problems of this kind
> > in future.
> What about implementing your alternative proposal in 2.5 and to use
> the current approach in a next 2.4.x kernel?
> Just because you have some code depending upon this doesn't
> mean that is the way we should implement it in 2.4.x
> We should do it right from the start. Because doing it properly
> hurts no other driver except for yours. :-)
Well, I tried it;-)
Sometimes programmers are as lazy as something.
But in fact, I'm on your side.
So it's time for another patch. However, I cannot foresee when I
finish this work.
Regards,
Andreas
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