Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266625AbUFRT6V (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266773AbUFRTul (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:50:41 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:51417 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266727AbUFRTq0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:46:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:46:24 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Timothy Miller Cc: Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Rik van Riel , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040618194624.GI20632@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Timothy Miller , Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Rik van Riel , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies References: <20040618153350.GB20632@lug-owl.de> <40D33C58.1030905@am.sony.com> <40D34671.3040602@techsource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oQzNxWgUu+KdQm49" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D34671.3040602@techsource.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: 1835 Lines: 52 --oQzNxWgUu+KdQm49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-06-18 15:45:53 -0400, Timothy Miller wrote in message <40D34671.3040602@techsource.com>: > Tim Bird wrote: >=20 > >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. >=20 > Now, THAT is a good idea. I trade that since, um, months. I'd even *like* to do that, but I need to earn some money, too:) Some time ago, I even brought this up as an idea to OSDL, but that ticket was closed some time later... 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)); --oQzNxWgUu+KdQm49 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) iD8DBQFA00aQHb1edYOZ4bsRAtDcAJoD0aGNs/97J4Mi42OdNPEtc8ElPACdEbgN RkBDbOygNW8oP/fK4+5Ho30= =MqbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oQzNxWgUu+KdQm49-- - 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/