Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:39:04 -0300 (BRT)


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > after all Redhat, SuSE, Conectiva, etc. wouldn't want to have
> > vmware and Veritas use their work without giving anything back ...
>
> I don't know about vmware (probably applies too) but more than one person
> at Veritas can be justly offended by your implication that Veritas
> employees have not contributed anything useful to the Linux kernel.
>
> I hope I understood you incorrectly and you weren't implying anything of
> the kind.

Indeed, Veritas has contributed significantly to kernel development,
but I can't remember ever seeing anything but troubled users from
companies like nvidia or vmware.

Veritas was a bad example indeed ;)

regards,

Rik

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