Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:29:23 -0500


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > If and when I step down as maintainer (if I do so, I'll publically
> > pass the baton to the new maintainer), the new maintainer can indent
> > to their preference. Until that time, *I'm* the maintainer, and *I*
> > need to be able to read the code efficiently. It's the part of the
> > kernel I spend the most time in, after all.
>
> I wasnt aware mtrr.c had an active maintainer.

According to changelog nothing substantive since March 1999.

> > "He who writes the code gets to choose".
>
> How about he who has to decipher the whole mess to add things...

At least one person actually Lindent's mtrr.c, modifies, tests, and then
backports changes into un-Lindent'd mtrr.c. Ug.

Jeff

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