No bad feelings are involved, as far as I'm concerned. And there is nothing preventing laptop users from migrating to 2.4 whenever it is released. I still distribute PCMCIA drivers that build correctly on 2.3.99* and work correctly. Linus and others made a choice to not include some of that code in the kernel; I pointed out what the issues were and he made a decision that I disagreed with, but I respect his decision. I think it would be very unfair to criticize me for those choices, and Linus will tell you the same thing. Compared to the situation with Donald Becker, I think there are a few differences. I'm not fighting a "turf war" here, and I'm not blowing off PCMCIA because I didn't get my way. I continue to release timely updates and continue to give feedback and send contributions to Linus and other kernel developers. I said there was no easy fix, because there really is no easy fix, not because I'm holding out on anyone. It is not unsolvable, but it also is not something I can fix on my own (and my solution has already been explicitly rejected). -- Dave |