Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262103AbUFRFy6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263629AbUFRFy6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:54:58 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:62154 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262103AbUFRFyz (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:54:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:54:54 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040618055454.GS20632@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> <77709e76040617180749cd1f09@mail.gmail.com> <40D24163.5000006@opensound.com> <1087522622.5475.30.camel@louise3.6s.nl> <40D24963.7040003@opensound.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gA6UC8XTb9NkxZ9U" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D24963.7040003@opensound.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2249 Lines: 61 --gA6UC8XTb9NkxZ9U Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-06-17 18:46:11 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote in message <40D24963.7040003@opensound.com>: > What's with you guys?. Would you really like to see Linux forking? I like playing with non-i386 hardware, that is, I do have (at least) one "forked" kernel for each architecture, possibly even more than one... It's just that --most of the time-- it's missing time that leads to forked trees (that need unification some time after...). Bet on it, I'd really like getting hired for keeping an eye on all those trees and working on reviewing/merging them all back to Linus' tree! It's probably nothing different with the SuSE kernels. You've hit a bug here, so let's solve that. But their large patch set won't go away completely: - Legacy drivers ported from 2.2.x and 2.4.x? Customer should use newer drivers. - Bugs fixed? Bugfix needs review and merge! (Hire me, if you can:) - New drivers? Review and merge! - New features that touch all the kernel? Needs a lot of discussion... So, some parts are easy, some are not. Your problem's bugfix for sure isn't hard to do, but large chunks of their patch may need *long* lasting discussion... MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --gA6UC8XTb9NkxZ9U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0oOuHb1edYOZ4bsRAhWCAJ4xcJlASi7mljEwcrAzfy3KDPZG/ACeL8ZN +v440iikEfctNUD2lJLoNlU= =ZWqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gA6UC8XTb9NkxZ9U-- - 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/