Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764815AbYBMBZR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753776AbYBMBZD (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:03 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36893 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751953AbYBMBZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:25:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080212.172532.233712855.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080212.163623.132476636.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 16 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:53:50 -0800 (PST) > The fact is, that "outlying code" is where we have all the bulk of the > code, and it's also where we have all those developers who aren't on the > "inside track". So we should help the outliers, not the core code. Good point. For the record I write drivers that use infrastructure too and have to deal with the API changes just as equally :-) -- 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/