Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261551AbTIYRhm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:37:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261409AbTIYRg3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:36:29 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:57095 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261551AbTIYRbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:31:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:31:49 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Wilcox , Marcelo Tosatti , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic Message-ID: <20030925183149.A19774@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Eric W. Biederman" , Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Wilcox , Marcelo Tosatti , Larry McVoy References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 25 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > And for the core kernel development this is true. There are subprojects > that are currently using BK that you can't even get the code without > BK. And the only reason they are using BK is they are attempting to > following how Linux is managed. So having the Linux kernel > development use BK does have some down sides. Stupid argument. E.g. the ppc folks used BK much longer than Linus. And there are kernel projects using svn (ieee1394) or cvs that you can't access without installing svn or cvs. > In addition there are some major gains to be had in standardizing on a > distributed version control system that everyone can use, and > unfortunately BK does not fill that position. So I think it is good > that there is enough general discontent it the air that people > continue to look for alternatives. Why should we standardize on one SCM? That's like we standadize on Windows for all computers.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/