netdev - Re: [PATCH] Driver-core: Fix bluetooth network device rename regression

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:20:28 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver-core: Fix bluetooth network device rename 
 regression

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:44 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Yes. The drivers are broken in its core use pattern, and enabling a
> (non-common) new feature exposes this.

You've been saying this for a long time now, but I still don't buy it.

This stuff WORKED before. Now, years later, you're saying that it has a
broken use pattern, and needs to be fixed. That's a pipe dream. In the
real world, you can't deliberately break things because years later you
decide that the use pattern that was working fine before is broken.

johannes

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