Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:24:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:24:02 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:25874 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:23:48 -0500 Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:33:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dana.lacoste@peregrine.com (Dana Lacoste), linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com ('Eyal Sohya'), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Dec 27, 2001 02:01:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > All in all, if such a system is ever going to exist, it > needs to _reduce_ the amount of work the kernel maintainers > need to do, otherwise it'll never get used. Tridge wrote the system you describe, several years ago. Its called jitterbug but it doesnt help because Linus wont use it - 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/