Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265219AbUFRPNk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:13:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265227AbUFRPNj (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:13:39 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:18308 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265219AbUFRPNa (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:13:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:13:15 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040618151315.GC1863@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Rik van Riel , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040618082708.GD12881@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 19 On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:43:19AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Yes, this is a hint at certain embedded developers. You > know who you are and chances are you also know what you would > like to develop if you no longer had to spend your time porting > the same old patches from one version of the product to the next. The shame of things is that the economic/effort problem appears to often be "solved" by never migrating to new kernel versions, or otherwise by amortizing the work involved with infrequent migrations. I wish I had answers. -- wli - 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/