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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>,
	per.liden@ericsson.com, allan.stephens@windriver.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:16:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223221657.GA10153@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070223180612.GE12392@stusta.de>

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:06:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >My impression is that most of this might have users that are not yet 
> > >submitted for inclusion in the kernel - one year after TIPC was merged.
> > > 
> > >
> > Not quite. The exported symbols belong to a public API for driver 
> > programmers.
> > We know about several users of this API, and there will be more, but I 
> > don't think
> > any of them are aspiring to have their code be included in the kernel.
> >...
> 
> Why not?
> 
> The goal is to get as many drivers as possible included in the kernel.

If we don't have any planned in-tree users for tipc we should simply drop
tipc from the kernel entirely.  No point to make our maintaince work harder
for out of tree freeloaders.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-24 22:58 Adrian Bunk
2007-01-25 16:08 ` [tipc-discussion] " Jon Maloy
2007-02-23 18:06   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-23 22:16     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-02-25  0:19       ` Stephens, Allan
2007-02-25 16:14         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-25 18:56           ` SV: " Jon Paul Maloy

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