Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-19 14:42:14 +0200, Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message <20040619144214.B32669@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > [...]
> > > The framebuffer is also so far behind. 9 out of 10 patches are
> > > dropped. The reason being is that everyone is a volunteer doing this in
> >
> > Do you mean dropped as "Posted on fb-devel but nobody cared" ?
>
> Maybe. And even that's a sad thing. Work has been done, and (without
> knowing the exact state of the fb development) I'm sure James did a good
> job on them. Caring for patches (so they make their way upstream) can
> take as long as doing the programming. If this work could be layed off,
> that would be nice:)

Caring for patches can easily take a multiple of the time to write the patches.

> So we need Rusty's "Not-so-trivial patch monkey(s)"...

:-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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