On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:21:15PM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote: > Hi Greg, all, > > > Ok, but wasn't it possible to get those additional things added to the > > main kernel serial core, which would then provide everything that > Digi's > > customers are accustomed to? > > Yes, it is my intention in the future to add support for the needed > information, > probably at the /sys level. > The key is to be able to get at the tty information without > having to open up the tty/port. > > Again, I understand why you required the changes in JSM, > IBM didn't need DPA support, so I had no problem with removing the > support. > > However, neither IBM nor Digi wants this thread's patch to be applied, > and yet Christoph wants to do it, completely out of spite, to break our > out-of-tree open source driver.
The problem is that your "out-of-tree open source driver" is an inadequate solution. Out of tree drivers are a pain for users, developers, and distributors. As such, we make very little allowance for their concerns, especially when they stand in the way of improving things that _are_ in the kernel. The proposed patch makes the in-tree driver work for hardware that it didn't before which is a net good for our users. The ball is now in your court: replace it with an acceptable version of your driver in a timely fashion. Saying you'll get around to it some day when you're done supporting 2.4 is not timely. Nor does it serve your users. Alternately, provide a good reason not to include said patch without reference to might-as-well-not-exist-as-far-as-we're-concerned out of tree drivers or the similarly irrelevant wishes of nebulous corporate entities. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/
