Quote of the week

Quote of the week

Posted Oct 21, 2006 12:17 UTC (Sat) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Quote of the week by william.waddington
Parent article: Quote of the week

If the DKI changes without including compatiblity hooks or "automatic" build options (like the #define above), the user is confronted with a page full of driver versions, and often picks the wrong one.

The perfctr patch has a nice automatic way of dealing with this problem.

Which reminds me that that patch has been submitted for in-kernel inclusion once, and apparently was not accepted (I have not followed the discussion on the reasons, but my impression was that the author did restructure his code to make it more acceptable to the kernel folk.

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