On Friday 23 June 2006 5:10 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's clear that people who I thought should know better are just too used > to the status quo, and as such, any change is automatically a bad thing. Loosely defined changes are hard to support. It's unclear which of the notions (or versions thereof) that have been discussed are ones you're actually suggesting should happen, or what the overall impact of them would be. > I think it's a failure that I have to do things like that myself, but in > the end, I don't much care. I've fixed up USB and PCMCIA messes for the > same reasons in the past. So have we all. It makes us want to avoid large scale changes that cause a need to retest things, since adequate retesting even on _one_ of the affected platform configurations can take so long. - Dave
