On Mar 25, 2008, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > How do you know without _actually trying_? Because I'm not the only person in the world, and others have preceded me in this attempt. > Several kernel hackers on this list have said they are willing to > support a drive for that, and upstream already has converted a few > drivers in this way. I'm not opposed to it. But it's a much longer-term process that quite honestly is very unlikely to solve the problem. Insisting for me to waste my time trying won't convince upstream, and upstream doesn't want to be convinced. If you think it is based on the few easy cases, you're missing a big part of the picture. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
