Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264906AbUFTKV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:21:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264908AbUFTKV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:21:59 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:37863 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264906AbUFTKV5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:21:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:21:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jan-Benedict Glaw cc: Francois Romieu , jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Tim Bird , Linux Kernel Development , William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , 4Front Technologies Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness In-Reply-To: <20040619135524.GX20632@lug-owl.de> Message-ID: References: <40D33C58.1030905@am.sony.com> <20040618200848.GL20632@lug-owl.de> <20040619144214.B32669@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20040619135524.GX20632@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1506 Lines: 37 On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > 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 > > > dropped. The reason being is that everyone is a volunteer doing this in > > > > 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:) Caring for patches can easily take a multiple of the time to write the patches. > So we need Rusty's "Not-so-trivial patch monkey(s)"... :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/