RE: [PATCH]InterMezzo Patch against linux-2.6.6

Hi Linus, Andrew,

I spoke with Chen and you can just drop InterMezzo now.  It is easy to
maintain as a module outside the kernel, we did that for some years.

- Peter -

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Linus Torvalds
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:35 AM
> To: Yang, Chen
> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda; Anton Blanchard; 
> [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; Peter Braam; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH]InterMezzo Patch against linux-2.6.6
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Yang, Chen wrote:
> >
> >    Below is the patch of InterMezzo again linux-2.6.6, I 
> can confirm 
> > that it's effective. I'm sad to see it's removed in bkl. It 
> seems that 
> > this is the last patch for InterMezzo. :(
> 
> It's removed because Peter seems to not want to support it 
> any more, and there didn't seem to be any usage. But if 
> people out there are actually using it, and somebody wants to 
> support it _and_ it is in good working state for 2.6.x, we 
> could certainly bring it back to life.
> 
> But if you only do this because you want to fix warnings that 
> people have posted about the sources, and you're not actually 
> seriously using it and maintaining it, then I'll just apply 
> this patch against plain 2.6.6 (so that it doesn't go away if 
> somebody wants to resurrect it later).
> 
> In other words - holler if you want to seriously support it. 
> We're not deleting it to be spiteful..
> 
> 		Linus
> 
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