[openib-general] Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 07:55 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:06 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > > They mightn't be exactly today's kernels, but they're no more than two
> > > or three weeks old.  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS has been in the kernel for a long
> > > time, and it's still not being picked up.
> > 
> > but it's a module; you can ship it no problem yourself if you go through
> > the hell of shipping external modules
> 
> Yes, we can ship it ourselves.  But a significant point of this exercise
> is to have the drivers be available to people who use unmodified
> distros, and don't want to download other bits to do so.

well shipping one .ko or two .ko's... same difference. Or maybe in your
case it's a 4->5 transition. No Difference from a user point of view.


So sorry I'm not buying your argument very much.