Re: eradicating out of tree modules

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 11:37:47 EST


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:11:11AM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> I'm sure that the majority of Linux users would never acquire
> the 4-board assembly that we use to acquire X-Ray data and
> generate real-time images for the baggage scanners in use
> at the world's major airports. That assembly, containing
> numerous CPUs and other high-speed pipelined stuff would
> cost the user about US$100,000 so I'm pretty sure that
> are not many takers so it is very unlikely that any modules
> to support it would never get into the mainstream kernel.

Of course it would be accepted, hell, we have a whole sub-architecture
with what, 3 users? :)

So please submit patches for your drivers, and we will be glad to review
them.

thanks,

greg k-h
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