Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 15:39:30 EST


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:07:04 +0200
Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK and if the authors of, say, SMP support say "back it out", Linux ends
> up without SMP support. Cool.

If you could get each and every author of SMP support to agree,
sure. But good luck getting that is quite a large group of
folks and since Linus is one of those authors.

And last I checked, no binary-only module hooks were added to
the SMP support recently, so nothing for them to get upset
about. :-)

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