Re: [PATCH] make i2c use initcalls everywhere

[Andrew Walrond]

Agreed. I would love to see the i2c and lmsensor stuff properly 
maintained in the kernel tree; It would save a whole lot of dicking around.

Pretty please?  ;)

J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 2002.12.29 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:26:28PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>>
>>>Wil this reach the i2c maintainer or the next auto-generated patch from i2c
>>>2.8.x will undo what you do now and will be sized 4Gb  ?
>>
>>There is no maintainer for drivers/i2c/.  The only updates it every got
>>was me syncinc with their releases and backing out obvious braindamage.
>>
>>
>>>Will this be accepted if I submit it, even independently of the maintainer ?
>>>Because I suppose (???) that maintainer is sending changes and they are going
>>>to trash...
>>
>>Maybe the changes the maintainers of the external i2c code are sending
>>_are_ trash?
>>
> 
> 
> (just put on the flame war suit...)
> 
> Stupid question: why people on http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ is not
> smashed with a hammer on the head and 'morally forced' to post, comment, etc.
> patches on LKML ? They continue to ship releases, every vendor tracks them,
> and every vendor has to correct changes they have not tracked from mainline,
> like that old about __exit functions, and now initcalls...
> 
> I really do not understand some things about Linux. Some people look like
> living in alternative universes...
>