On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 03:45:15PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> > Really ? I thought it was the other way round - that Linus wasn't happy
> > with the code, so it stayed out.
> he had a few technical issues. there were quite a few threads where
> Linus and DH crossed swords over how to handle hot-swap, and device
> reconfiguration.. but Linus' biggest problem was with the fact that he
> didn't get final say over the code, and David Hinds liked maintaining
> pcmcia seperately and didn't want the extra work of having to maintain
> it within the linux source.
Ah right. That would make more sense. DH prolly insisted "I wrote it, if
it goes into the kernel, I want to keep maintaining it" etc.
Kate
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