Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263040AbUFRUYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:24:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261763AbUFRUTy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:19:54 -0400 Received: from mail8.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.75]:19356 "EHLO mail8.fw-bc.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266605AbUFRUTQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:19:16 -0400 Message-ID: <40D34E72.4010104@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:20:02 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Jan-Benedict Glaw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1389 Lines: 40 Rik van Riel wrote: > 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. Absolutely! For the CE space, the resources for this should come from CE companies. I've been thinking about the practicalities and logistics of doing this in the CE Linux Forum, or of encouraging member companies to do this for their own products. I wouldn't even consider making a request that non-CE-related people do this. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com ============================= - 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/