On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:27 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
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> > Why is it so difficult to see the value of KEEPING STUFF WORKING AS
> IT 
> > WORKS TODAY?
> 
> Sure Jeff. Lets delete libata, that caused all sorts of problems when
> it was being added.

A particularly good example. I used to be able to just copy around the
driver for my host controller. Now I have to copy _two_ files, so the
world is going to end! Should I have insisted that we link libata
statically into each and every module which uses it?

(Or at least I have to copy two files _if_ I actually want to make
changes to libata.ko too, which I almost never do...)

-- 
dwmw2

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