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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by _asummers on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:27AM (#14709818)
I mean, I get it, but is that necessary? To me, it takes significantly less effort to say "X processor is not popular enough at this time to have this driver enabled by default. If this changes in the future, we can reevaluate, however I don't anticipate this changing any time soon." If he gets enough of these that it warrants this kind of response, maybe have an official policy on what can be enabled default and the reasoning behind it.
Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by dis-sys on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:45AM (#14709917)
I think he is playing too nice, delaying the offending module's inclusion for a few months can be a better choice - it is a community maintained big project affecting hundreds of millions of devices, all parties should play nice, no one should sneak in anything surprising just for the benefit of your code/project/company.