On Sat 2010-11-06 20:03:48, Ted Ts'o wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:26PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > also, none of these other patches resulted in device drivers
> > developed for a distro being incompatible with mainline.
> 
> What, people can't delete a couple of single lines of code before
> submitting the device driver upstream to mainline?  Here's the world's
> tiniest violin playing, "my heart bleeds for you"....

Deleting couple single liners is not a problem. Cleaning up 100KLoC
patch for mainline *is* a problem.

I know, I tried to do that work. Even getting it to staging quality
was hard, and it was recently dropped due to security holes.

Unfortunately google uses wakelocks as an excuse for not cleaning up
stuff... "because readding those few lines would be too hard".

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