Alan Cox  writes:
> To my mind we need to be careful of three things

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> - Harming the kernel to work around a potentially country specific

>   unproven problem for the benefit of a few big corporations only

My choice is to provide the option of those to users. I'm not saying to

ripping out the code for some users.
> - Getting into situations where big companies behind closed doors make

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>   unaccountable decisions about a project they do not own

Now, I'm not working for any companies. I can say there is no closed

doors for me.
> - Setting trends for country specific fixups. There are a lot of

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>   countries and if we keep the US happy we have to keep China happy and

>   so it goes on. Big corporations employ armies of specialists for these

>   purposes and make the gain from it. The community doesn't so it should

>   no more carry the pain of it than of long term stable releases and

>   supporting five year old vendor kernels

I'm just thinking about users. If vendors shipped the buggy code like

first buggy patch, I just thought it's more bad for our users. That's

all.
If there is community decision, I'll be really glad to follow it.
Thanks.

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OGAWA Hirofumi

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