Re: [PATCH] make i2c use initcalls everywhere

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2002.12.29 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:26:28PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > Wil this reach the i2c maintainer or the next auto-generated patch from i2c
> > 2.8.x will undo what you do now and will be sized 4Gb  ?
> 
> There is no maintainer for drivers/i2c/.  The only updates it every got
> was me syncinc with their releases and backing out obvious braindamage.
> 
> > Will this be accepted if I submit it, even independently of the maintainer ?
> > Because I suppose (???) that maintainer is sending changes and they are going
> > to trash...
> 
> Maybe the changes the maintainers of the external i2c code are sending
> _are_ trash?
> 

(just put on the flame war suit...)

Stupid question: why people on http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ is not
smashed with a hammer on the head and 'morally forced' to post, comment, etc.
patches on LKML ? They continue to ship releases, every vendor tracks them,
and every vendor has to correct changes they have not tracked from mainline,
like that old about __exit functions, and now initcalls...

I really do not understand some things about Linux. Some people look like
living in alternative universes...

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