Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755725AbXISTmK (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:42:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751677AbXISTlz (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:41:55 -0400 Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:60551 "EHLO outbound1-dub-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751396AbXISTlx (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:41:53 -0400 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 160.33.66.75;Service: EHS Message-ID: <46F17B54.6070106@am.sony.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:41:08 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux kernel , linux-tiny , CE Linux Developers List , Michael Opdenacker , john cooper , Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival References: <46F1645D.9050406@am.sony.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2007 19:41:35.0448 (UTC) FILETIME=[167B9D80:01C7FAF5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1524 Lines: 37 Andi Kleen wrote: > Tim Bird writes: > > >> Recently, the CE Linux forum has been working to revive the >> Linux-tiny project. At OLS, I asked for interested parties >> to volunteer to become the new maintainer for the Linux-tiny patchset. > > Not sure what the point is of a separate patchkit. If it's a reasonable > patch it should just be put into mainline. And hopefully all the patches > will be reasonable. I don't know the detailed history, but my understanding is that for some of these, mainline attempts were made in the past. The patchkit gives a place for things to live while they are out of mainline, and still have multiple people use and work on them. Optimally the duration of being out-of-mainline would be short, but my experience is that sometimes what an embedded developer considers reasonable to hack off the kernel is not considered so reasonable by other developers (even with config options). Also, sometimes it takes a while for a patch to mature to the point where it is acceptable for general use, while still being usable for special-purpose projects. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= - 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/