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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:15:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130221201541.GV30998@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5125f054.B5mRqRmnDiB3eqhE%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 
> I cannot speak for your specific case, but I know that Linus definitely did 
> break the SCSI generic pass through interface in Linux several times and one 
> time this was done while integrating his personal code.
> 
> At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand 
> what changes may break an interface. The real problem however was that he was 
> not willing to fix his fault, so we can definitely call this case (from Spring 
> 2004) a break by intention.
> 
> 
> Jörg
> 
> -- 
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>        joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20 13:40 [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules walt
2013-02-20 14:04 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-02-20 20:23 ` Markos Chandras
2013-02-20 20:57 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-21  1:15   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-02-21  1:53     ` Mike Gilbert
2013-02-21  2:33       ` Pandu Poluan
2013-02-21 10:00   ` [gentoo-user] " Joerg Schilling
2013-02-21 20:15     ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2013-02-22  5:30     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2013-02-22 10:27       ` Joerg Schilling
2013-02-22 21:44         ` Bruce Hill
2013-02-22 21:45         ` Bruce Hill
2013-02-21  8:30 ` Helmut Jarausch

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