Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:55:27 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.5.4 i810_audio, bttv, working at all. |
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David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:30:48 -0800 (PST) > > Basic rule: it's up to _other_ architectures to fix drivers that don't > work for them. Always has been. Because there's no way you can get the > people who just want to have something working to care. > >And if nobody else ends up doing it, you are right it will be people >like Jeff and myself doing it. > >So what we are asking is to allow a few weeks for that and not crap up >the tree meanwhile. This is so that the cases that need to be >converted are harder to find. > If you try to use them, then they are not hard to find - things just break for you and you fix tem. If you are fixing things for the "store" Linus is right that indeed it's just a waiste of time on your behalf.
>Actually, you're only half right in one regard. Most people I've >pointed to Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt have responded "Oh, never saw >that before, that looks easy to do. Thanks I'll fix it up properly >for you." >
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