Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1173 bytes --]

On Feb 21, 2013 8:54 AM, "Mike Gilbert" <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Mike Gilbert 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.
> >
> > Hey Mike and Markos, I see you guys are both gentoo devs, so I (and all
of us
> > nerds who hang out here) owe you both a huge thank-you for all your
good work:
> > Thank you! (If this post were in html, that thank-you would be in huge
type :)
> >
> > My comment about Linus was an example of (what I call) my dry sense of
humor.
> > (OTOH my wife would call me a sarcastic asshole, but she's wrong, of
course.)
> >
> >
>
> Somehow I missed the joke in my rush to prove someone wrong on the
internet. :P
>

Obligatory xkcd reference:

http://xkcd.com/386/

Rgds,
--

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1632 bytes --]