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Richard B. Johnson writes:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> [SNIPPED]
>
> > > that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply
> a
> > > "current" distribution of L
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> To: Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device inte
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement
> that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a
> "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it.
There /is/ no single "current" distribution. *A* current distribut
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 08:07:38PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement
> that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a
> "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it.
Cobalt's lawyers seem
Alexander Viro wrote:
* Inodes got a new field: i_bdev. Filesystems should not worry
> about it - just remember to call init_special_inode() when you are
> initializing device/fifo/socket in-core inode (in foo_read_inode() or in
> foo_mknod(); all filesystems in the tree are doing it now)
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> >Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >> For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of
> >> an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two
> >> weeks of unpaid work!
- Original Message -
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement
> that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a
> "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it.
Your legal p
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> >Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >> For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of
> >> an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two
> >> weeks of unpaid work!
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>> For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of
>> an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two
>> weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid because I had to hide it. If
>> anyone in Product
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of
> an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two
> weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid because I had to hide it. If
> anyone in Production Engineering had learned about this, the
> stuff
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of
> an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two
> weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid because I had to hide it. If
> anyone in Production Engineering had learned about this, the
> stuff would have been th
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and
> > some of them made it into 2.3.38.
> [SNIP...]
>
> Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away
> major portions of the
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The industrial use of Linux is not at the desktop.
Industrial use of Linux usually doesn't involve the kernels
which are marked as `development', ie. where the `middle'
version number is odd and where major things are expected
to change.
People ve
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Linux isnt at war. War involves large numbers of people making losing decisions
> that harm each other in a vain attempt to lose last. Linux is about winning.
Wonderful!!! (wrt Linux but too better wrt war)
Can I cite that? ;-)
--
Abramo Bagnara mailto
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away
> major portions of the work done over the past few years by software
> engineers who ported their drivers to Linux. Linux will never be
> accepted as a 'professional' operating sys
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Richard B. Johnson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>> Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and
>> some of them made it into 2.3.38.
> [SNIP...]
> Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just b
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and
> > some of them made it into 2.3.38.
> [SNIP...]
>
> Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away
> major
> Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away
> major portions of the work done over the past few years by software
> engineers who ported their drivers to Linux. Linux will never be
> accepted as a 'professional' operating system if this continues.
Hardly. You obviously d
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and
> some of them made it into 2.3.38.
[SNIP...]
Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away
major portions of the work done over the past few years by software
Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and
some of them made it into 2.3.38.
* New type (struct block_device) is defined. We have a cache of
such objects, indexed by dev_t. struct block_device * is going to replace
kdev_t for block devices. Handling of the cac
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