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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:15:59 -0500
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d.c wrote:
> El Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:34:23 -0500 (EST),
> "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> escribi?:
> 
> 
> 
>>BK already feeds patches out at the head, surely if it's as powerful as
>>you think, it could feed a free SCM too for your non-bk friends in the
>>community.
> 
> 
> Who cares, really?
> 
> 1) Linux was never supposed to have a "head", but -pre/-rc diff patches
> 
> 2) And more important, *nobody* works against "linus' bk head". Everyone who
>     is implementing something so intrusive that needs to keep track of the
>     "development head" developes again the _true_ "head" of the linux
>     kernel - akpm's tree.

If I wanted to develop something which would eventually go into 
mainline, I certainly would do it against Linus' tree. There are many 
things going on in -mm which might or might not require significant 
changes in approach to work. I think -mm is a great place to try the 
scheduler of the week, but unless some feature requires one of those, 
it's easier to start from a known base.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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