Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266255AbUFRR1u (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:27:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266289AbUFRR1u (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:27:50 -0400 Received: from sb0-cf9a48a7.dsl.impulse.net ([207.154.72.167]:7572 "EHLO madrabbit.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266255AbUFRR1r (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:27:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness From: Ray Lee To: riel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <2c0942db040618100264ea6b7d@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c0942db040618100264ea6b7d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://madrabbit.org/ Message-Id: <1087579664.15659.108.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:27:44 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1466 Lines: 32 > 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. Speaking as someone who had to port 2.4.20 to a custom embedded platform, starting from a fork of a fork (Wolfgang Denk's fork of linuxppc-2.4-devel fork of mainline) was the quickest way to get to a running board. (ie, the quickest way for me to get on to the next phase of the software, which was all the driver code, and custom userspace stuff for controlling everything). At the end of the project, I looked at the patches, and tried to work out what would be required to get the board running on mainline. It was a lot of work. Which, I hasten to add, is a massive understatement. Perhaps it has gotten better with 2.6. I don't know. But I'd hope that those with the knowledge can eventually roll back in the needed changes to mainline. It certainly would make this developer's life more pleasant. In the meantime, I'd like to thank the people behind the linuxppc-2.4-devel tree, and Wolfgang, for making my life much easier than it could have been. Ray - 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/