[plug] Changes to PLUG

Adrian Chadd adrian at creative.net.au
Sun Jul 29 11:53:37 WST 2007


On Sun, Jul 29, 2007, Paul Antoine wrote:
> Adrian Woodley wrote:
> >There seems to be a lot of myth and legend associated with the
> >illustrious MM.
> >
> >A quick scan of the current (2.6.22) tree doesn't show up any reference
> >to Michael Malone.
> 
> MM mentioned it to me in conversation a few weeks ago (no need to guess 
> which pub it was :-)  He was quite dismissive of it saying that it was 
> the early ppp code and that it was likely gone from the kernel by now.

*laugh* I'm out of the loop, so I don't know which pub it is.

But cool, I only thought MOR did the Linux kernel stuff. Good for MM. :)

> I too have contributed to the kernel when in 95 I started the port to 
> the MIPS 3000 arch DECstation.  Most of that code has already gone, with 
> int-handler.S no doubt disappearing sometime soon :-)

heh.

> Such is the life of Open Source, and Linux in particular where egos 
> reign supreme. </cynicism off>

Heh! :) I'm happy to be corrected. :) (And I've had some of my code
in FreeBSD removed by similar ego reigning..)


Adrian




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