academia contribution to the kernel

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Tue May 31 18:19:20 EDT 2011


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote:
>> >> Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of
>> >> milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering.
>> >> Could be intersting.
>> >
>> > Ah, yes, you were not the first one to think of this one, it's on my
>> > list already :)
>> >
>>
>> I have another question. Maybe a silly one but here it goes:
>
> Not silly at all.
>
>> As far as I know linux staging is not only a mean to add code that
>> still is not in a mergeable form but also to deprecate old code. This
>> also applies to old subsystem like IBM MCA and ISA? Are these old
>> buses and ancient architectures being deprecated in the next 3.x
>> releases?
>
> Nice point, I'll try to work it in.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

A joke / sarcastic post was made to the IDE list that deleted the
entire IDE subsystem.  It didn't seem many people thought it was
funny!

Greg



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