Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:35:29PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:all. Wasn't it Linus who said that regressions where not acceptable, even if the patch causing the regression was a big boon for other users?The other way round, actually. Linus has a habit of taking semi-working drivers out of the kernel in the hope that this will give the users of said driver an incentive to build a driver that really works.
Name one case where he went and removed a driver from a previous kernel release.
Regards, Dennis