> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:56:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > I'm trying to compile a list of all known external modules and drivers
>> > and work to get them included in the main kernel tree to help prevent
>> > these kinds of things. If you know of any that are not on the list at:
>> >
http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers
>> > please feel free to add them, or email me with the needed information
>> > and I will add them to the list.
>>
>> That's certainly helpful, but I still think there will always be
>> a number of external modules that cannot be merged right now or at
>> all, and deliberately making life difficult for out-of-tree code
>> maintainers in order to coerce them into submitting their code for
>> inclusion in the kernel will not work, it'll only create bad
>> feelings.
>
> Do you have examples of proof of this? Read
> Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt for how we already make
> out-of-tree code developer's lives hell :)
