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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:53:43
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43gM-dY2jY4f3qZ+EnP1VM_uCyL9wABSxkPo5Tcyvgf7g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by walt
1 On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to
5 >>> start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox-
6 >>> modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;)
7 >>>
8 >>
9 >> Linus just merges the stuff. No need to make it sound like a personal vendetta.
10 >
11 > Hey Mike and Markos, I see you guys are both gentoo devs, so I (and all of us
12 > nerds who hang out here) owe you both a huge thank-you for all your good work:
13 > Thank you! (If this post were in html, that thank-you would be in huge type :)
14 >
15 > My comment about Linus was an example of (what I call) my dry sense of humor.
16 > (OTOH my wife would call me a sarcastic asshole, but she's wrong, of course.)
17 >
18 >
19
20 Somehow I missed the joke in my rush to prove someone wrong on the internet. :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>