> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Cort Dougan wrote:
> > >
> > > We're painfully aware of this. We do sync up with you though, so the vger
> > > tree does have what he needs along with your changes.
> > >
> > > }I have stopped synching up to vger a _long_ time ago. Anybody who still
> > > }thinks vger has _any_ relevance to the standard kernel is very much
> > > }misguided.
> >
> > Note that saying "it's in vger, so you're wasting your time" is still
> > completely and utterly stupid. The fact that it is in vger has absolutely
> > no bearing, especially as there's a _lot_ of stuff in vger that will
> > probably never make it into 2.2.
> >
> > Linus
>
> How about allowing the fixes in? Broken kernels, or, more
> correctly, kernels with broken console code, suk.
If the patch works and is appropriate, who cares if the diff is
generated from someone's own tree or from "cvs diff" on the vger tree??
Jon
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