Andy Green <[email protected]> writes: > | FSO (and therefore SHR) includes Werner's s3c24xx-gpio utility for > | quite some time, so it's very easy to workaround in userspace, just > | add two calls to bootscript. > > I learned the hard way we have no control over the various rootfs / > distributions, many of them like to still issue 2.6.24. > > Also, that way we would crap up several rootfs with a workaround for > something that should be fixed only by a kernel upgrade.
That's up to the distributions. Either they use a new kernel or cherrypick fixes to their favourite rev or they introduce workarounds. It's up to them to remove the workarounds when they finally decide to fix kernel. > I also observed many strange unrelated things getting blamed on Qi by > customers, I guess because there is no LCM feedback at the moment. Also UFOs are often blamed for all kinds of crap we have in life. > So with these things in mind I conclude I should revert it despite it's > obviously the "wrong thing to do" because it's the least wrong thing > overall. I dare to disagree. Why don't you ask the actual distribution maintainers? -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:[email protected]
