On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:03:21AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Why everyone thinks that it is a good idea to pile workarounds for > software issues in the kernel but updating the other parts of software > stack is a big no-no? It's probably because pressing 'reset' and have your board TFTP the new kernel straight from your development machine is far easier than going through the hoops to regenerate a root filesystem and reflashing it. Note that I'm not condoning it, just pointing out why it happens. And yes, we must resist the temptation to merge such workarounds. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html