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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:14:11 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> To: "Stephens, Allan" <allan.stephens@...driver.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>, per.liden@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:19:19PM -0800, Stephens, Allan wrote: >... > 2) There are portions of TIPC's native API which are intended for use by > driver programmers, but which are not being used by any code that is > currently in the kernel. While removing these API's from TIPC will only > impact these "freeloaders", it has the potential to discourage future > programmers who *do* want to contribute their work to the kernel by > removing API's that are apparently necessary/useful when doing coding of > this sort. It can be re-added at any time when an in-kernel user comes. But the most interesting question is: Why is noone interested in getting his TIPC using drivers merged? > Regards, > Al >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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