Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:36:34 -0500 (CDT)


On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Cort Dougan wrote:
> >
> > We're painfully aware of this. We do sync up with you though, so the vger
> > tree does have what he needs along with your changes.
> >
> > }I have stopped synching up to vger a _long_ time ago. Anybody who still
> > }thinks vger has _any_ relevance to the standard kernel is very much
> > }misguided.
>
> Note that saying "it's in vger, so you're wasting your time" is still
> completely and utterly stupid. The fact that it is in vger has absolutely
> no bearing, especially as there's a _lot_ of stuff in vger that will
> probably never make it into 2.2.
>
> Linus

How about allowing the fixes in? Broken kernels, or, more
correctly, kernels with broken console code, suk.

-Shawn
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