Re: ITE 8212 and pwc drivers absent in Rawhide

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Hi

> I offered to, but there are other maintainers. I
> mostly offered to prove
> Linus was being totally two faced about it. When he
> removed the driver at
> the original authors request I asked him to remove
> all my code too because
> his approach was offensive to me. He refused.


Greg and Linus were trying to be polite about it. In
general we shouldnt be having code despite authors
requests inside the kernel. Of course removing all
your contributions from Linux is too much of work. so
its a balance. not as black and white as you imply


=====
Regards
Rahul Sundaram


		
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