On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:43:08PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

Sigh, why insist people on working around core code instead of talking
to the responsible maintainers about their problem in the first place?

I don't know if it's the case here but with a lot of the people I speak
to it's because they're used to working on proprietary OSs where there's
no possibility of fixing the core and they haven't yet realised that
this is a possibility.