Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:05:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com>
Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Tim Bird wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> The idea of having some dedicated developers perform this function is
> actually a pretty good one, although I wouldn't burden Linus with
> managing them.  That is, it might be useful to have some people
> following behind embedded product developers trying to glean,
> generalize, forward-port and otherwise clean-up patches that would
> otherwise never see the light of day.

Since the people benefitting from this work are the
embedded developers, it would seem logical that they
should bear the cost of this effort, too.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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