[ Cc:s trimmed a little ] Greg KH wrote: > Sorry, the "policy" I was referring to was the "out-of-the-tree drivers > are on their own" statement. Not the use of the HAVE macros.
Not all users of kernel code are in- or out-of-tree drivers and the like. E.g. tcsim (from tcng.sf.net) grabs substantial portions of the traffic control and netlink code and merges them with user space. It also tries to be compatible with most 2.4 kernels. For feature tests, I use basically anything that doesn't run away quickly enough. And I'm sure you want none of *that* kind of code anywhere near mainline ;-) Not that I currently have more troubles with it than usually. I just want to point out that there are other, strange but legitimate (at least in the "all shall eventually be GPL" sense) users of the kernel, who don't mind a friendly environment. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
