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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:34:06
Message-Id: CAA2qdGVoUw=FYPv3XgqUfG3uEt8w+CyAm=8vHKwDA0CEfKtGgQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by Mike Gilbert
1 On Feb 21, 2013 8:54 AM, "Mike Gilbert" <floppym@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 > >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > >>> Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for
7 Linus to
8 > >>> start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and
9 virtualbox-
10 > >>> modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow,
11 probably ;)
12 > >>>
13 > >>
14 > >> Linus just merges the stuff. No need to make it sound like a personal
15 vendetta.
16 > >
17 > > Hey Mike and Markos, I see you guys are both gentoo devs, so I (and all
18 of us
19 > > nerds who hang out here) owe you both a huge thank-you for all your
20 good work:
21 > > Thank you! (If this post were in html, that thank-you would be in huge
22 type :)
23 > >
24 > > My comment about Linus was an example of (what I call) my dry sense of
25 humor.
26 > > (OTOH my wife would call me a sarcastic asshole, but she's wrong, of
27 course.)
28 > >
29 > >
30 >
31 > Somehow I missed the joke in my rush to prove someone wrong on the
32 internet. :P
33 >
34
35 Obligatory xkcd reference:
36
37 http://xkcd.com/386/
38
39 Rgds,
40 --