Re: [PATCH] net/802/Makefile

Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:10:12 -0700

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:40:45AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:35:27 +0100
>
> Can you submit that version? ;)
>
> No, because it is writable by the user in every kernel source tree I
> have ever seen, the change makes no sense.

You haven't tried a BitKeeper tree then. You have to explicitly get
write permission.

> In the official tarballs it is writable, and even in every CVS tree
> (2.2.x, 2.4.x vger) I have looked at it is writable.
>
> And as Alan has stated, this code is pretty irrelevant soon.

If this rewrite goes into 2.4, yes. And using 2.2 as an example it
could after a while...

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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