On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:11 +0200, Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:51:18 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Any reason why this patch isn't submited upstream ? :) > > > > Ben. > > the patch actually isn't mine. > It has first been written by Luca Bigliardi but he could not find > anyone willing to submit it because there was a flame - i do not > remeber exactly between him and who - because it did not use sysfs.
I remember doing a comment about that but not flaming anybody :) It might have degenrated into a flamewar later on. I think the patch could use being modified to have a way to "switch" between the 2 modes at runtime though, or at the very least with a kernel command line option. > Then Bigliardi stopped mantaining it and Matteo Bigoi took over, but > he always made minor modifications so it could just work with newer > kernels. Ok. > I don't know if the patch is actually ready for upstream, needs > cleaning or any of the such becaus i always just used it - both autors > are friends and study colleagues. > I suggest you - or someone willing to take it upstream - contact Matteo > Bigoi for all the informations. It certainly could go upstream with a bit of work, I was just suprised there was no apperent effort in that direction. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
