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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:19:28 +0100
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
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linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Crispin Cowan <crispin@...spincowan.com>,
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@...ian.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: eradicating out of tree modules
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:11 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> I'm sure that the majority of Linux users would never acquire
> the 4-board assembly that we use to acquire X-Ray data and
> generate real-time images for the baggage scanners in use
> at the world's major airports. That assembly, containing
> numerous CPUs and other high-speed pipelined stuff would
> cost the user about US$100,000 so I'm pretty sure that
> are not many takers so it is very unlikely that any modules
> to support it would never get into the mainstream kernel.
As long as you're maintaining them proprely, I don't why.
Xav
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