On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 18:08, Smitty wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 14:31, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 13:55, Smitty wrote:
> > > Please be specific about what you mean by "crap". Who exactly made such
> > > statements and were they based on firsthand experience?
> >
> > I'll just say that the kernel developers refused to merge Promise's code
> > into the main kernel codebase because "it was crap". That included
> > Linus, Alan and Andre IIRC. Take that how you will.
>
> O.K. but at the same time they Should offer some suggestions of how to rewrite
> the drivers into well-structured code, if indeed the criticisms were made.
Someone (Andre?) made some comment as to how there was a separate
project ongoing to implementing support for the newer Promise chipsets,
and the Promise code was bad enough that they would just do without and
just keep working on the existing codebase.
I wish I could find the particular thread because it wasn't as bad as I
make it sound. It wasn't an entirely critical exchange, but it did
mostly boil down to "Here's some code", "yuck, no thanks, we'll write
our own".
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