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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 & test6 cd burning/scheduler/ide-scsi.c bug
Date: 16 Oct 2003 18:18:47 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bmmne7$hkf$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0310051928440.25623-100000@llave.eproinet.com

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310051928440.25623-100000@llave.eproinet.com>,
Mark W. Alexander <slash@dotnetslash.net> wrote:

| The first problem is that those applications need to be notified that
| "the times, they are a changin'." I suggest you submit bug reports to
| them so they can at least fail hard and be given time to prepare for
| the 2.6 way.

Would it not be better to fix the kernel rather than try to get the
authors of every application to add a Linux-only fix? And expect every
future application to be written for Linux and the rest of the world?
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-16 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-03  1:19 2.6.0-test5 & test6 cd burning/scheduler/ide-scsi.c bug AG
2003-10-03  1:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-10-04 15:19   ` Matthias Urlichs
2003-10-05 23:37     ` Mark W. Alexander
2003-10-16 18:18       ` bill davidsen [this message]
2003-10-09 21:55   ` bill davidsen

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