Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265783AbUFSN4B (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:56:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265787AbUFSN4A (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:56:00 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:14572 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265783AbUFSNza (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:55:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:55:24 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Francois Romieu Cc: jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040619135524.GX20632@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Francois Romieu , jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies References: <40D33C58.1030905@am.sony.com> <20040618200848.GL20632@lug-owl.de> <20040619144214.B32669@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VVZ6IZRSU2O3JPXu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040619144214.B32669@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.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: 1874 Lines: 53 --VVZ6IZRSU2O3JPXu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-06-19 14:42:14 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote in message <20040619144214.B32669@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>: > jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org : > [...] > > The framebuffer is also so far behind. 9 out of 10 patches are=20 > > dropped. The reason being is that everyone is a volunteer doing this in= =20 >=20 > Do you mean dropped as "Posted on fb-devel but nobody cared" ? Maybe. And even that's a sad thing. Work has been done, and (without knowing the exact state of the fb development) I'm sure James did a good job on them. Caring for patches (so they make their way upstream) can take as long as doing the programming. If this work could be layed off, that would be nice:) So we need Rusty's "Not-so-trivial patch monkey(s)"... 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)); --VVZ6IZRSU2O3JPXu 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) iD8DBQFA1EXMHb1edYOZ4bsRAufNAJoCIIF62hpwXW5OFLVIhPShjdZ2PgCfb5fZ LNkuGElT9s0trS4BOw6Zdv0= =Qofi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VVZ6IZRSU2O3JPXu-- - 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/