Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755188AbXITWDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752444AbXITWDK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:10 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:43523 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345AbXITWDI (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:08 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: linux-tiny@selenic.com Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Andrew Morton , Tim Bird , linux kernel , CE Linux Developers List , Michael Opdenacker References: <46F1645D.9050406@am.sony.com> <20070919142805.e0242fcf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070919142805.e0242fcf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709201802.58611.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2203 Lines: 46 On Wednesday 19 September 2007 4:28:05 pm Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:03:09 -0700 > > Tim Bird wrote: > > 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. > > I volunteer! Send patches to me, cc linux-kernel and celinuv-dev. > > Seriously, putting this stuff into some private patch collection should > be a complete last resort - you should only do this with patches which > you (and the rest of us) agree have no hope of ever getting into mainline. History! The -tiny tree started out as a separate patch kit of Matt Mackall's, which he stopped updating circa 2.6.14 because he didn't think keeping them out of tree was helping attract other developers, nor was it helping to get them inline. He decided to focus on pushing the existing patches into mainline, and stop maintaining the out of tree patcheset for new releases. His last post on the subject (to the linux-tiny mailing list) was a year ago: http://selenic.com/pipermail/linux-tiny/2006-March/000314.html But what happened is that most of the abandoned patches stopped applying to new kernels yet still weren't available in mainline a year later, so Tim and Michael have stepped in to revive the -tiny tree. (Tim talked about this a bit at the CELF BOF at OLS, which is more acronyms than should really show up immediately after one another in any confersation, FYI.) So yay new tree. Tried without it, didn't work. Broken up to make merging easier, but mainline will probably never _fully_ catch up, any more than it'll catch up with any of the other special-interest development trees. Making -tiny an .hg tree would be really really nice, though... :) Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/