Posted Sep 17, 2009 13:42 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
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Wow, somebody actually reads those lists!
Of course, but only those that actually work on the particular code. That way they can say "oh look, my work made it to LWN!" ;-)
Fixed
Posted Sep 17, 2009 16:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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It's also read by those rare unfortunates who have hardware too new/obscure to be supported yet. 'Ooh, my Camelot crystal ball is supported now!'
Fixed
Posted Sep 18, 2009 9:07 UTC (Fri) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
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Which also covers a pretty good proportion of those working on the drivers - if a board has one shiny new chip on it it's probably got a bunch of others too.