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2008/7/26 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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>> But when you ask them about support for the new kernels, the answer is "we |
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>> are annoyed by the kernel development process; they change the internal API |
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>> all the time, it's annoying." |
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>> I think it's time for the kernel devs to apologize to VMWare and to |
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>> promise that they won't be so annoying anymore in the future. We can't let |
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>> VMWare getting annoyed, now can we. |
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> read "stable-api-nonsense.txt" in any kernel source directory. That's the |
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> way it works. If VMWare doesn't like it, that's tough. They DO have the |
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> option of putting their entire code base in the kernel tree like every other |
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> driver that is already there, but they have chosen not to. That's their |
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> choice and no-one forced them to do it. Now they have to live with that |
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> choice and stop whinging. |
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> Linux existed long before VMWare came along. It will likely still exist |
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> long after VMWare has gone away. |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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If you like to use VMWare, then you will have to like to use the kernel |
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version that they support until they support a newer one... Then it's not |
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about the stability of the gentoo-sources, it's about the VMWare people... |
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There are new features in the new kernel that have been already tested in |
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several distributions and that are important to keep gentoo up with the new |
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hardware support I think... |
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-- |
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En el pasado creímos que se nos acababa |
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el petróleo, pero en realidad lo que se nos |
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acababan eran las IDEAS. |
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http://www.lacomunidadpetrolera.com |
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Gentoo/* (Linux #455615) www.gentoove.org |
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Sebastian Magrí (sebasmagri) <sebasmagri_at_gmail_dot_com> |
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