From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:44:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130222214448.GA30998@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51274821.E65Tn+F6dPAxgKzU%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:27:45AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> Well, it seemt that you are confusing user-interfaces with kernel-internal-interfaces :-(
>
> I was of course writing about a kernel <-> user interface that need to stay
> stable as the problem has been identified with cdrtools and cdrtools are known to run
> in user space.
>
> It seems however, that you have similar problems as Linus. Linus believes that
> user level code is not allowed to include include files from the kernel that
> describe kernel <-> user interfaces. With this rule, he disallows kernel <-> user
> interfaces to be used at all - which looks really strange.
>
> Jörg
Really, Jörgy, you should just forgive Linus and move on. He forked you out of
the kernel equation almost a decade ago. ;)
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 21:45 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
2013-02-22 5:30 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2013-02-22 10:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-02-22 21:44 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2013-02-22 21:45 ` Bruce Hill
2013-02-21 8:30 ` Helmut Jarausch
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