From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:00:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5125f054.B5mRqRmnDiB3eqhE%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP40zwvTEo5f3N3U34PM3Y3k4vkdgY8VAq9KQaRAQny17Mg@mail.gmail.com>
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to
> > start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox-
> > modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;)
> >
>
> Linus just merges the stuff. No need to make it sound like a personal vendetta.
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-21 10:02 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 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2013-02-21 20:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
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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