Re: Accountability

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:50:41 +0100 (BST)


> I don't think I was implicitly relying upon magic to get it into the kernel.
> Let's look at what `suitable fashion' might mean, in this context:

A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to maintain
it and fix it.

> I'm reminded of when Andrew Tanenbaum discouraged Bruce Evans and me from
> working on a multi-threaded file system for Minix because it'd reduce the
> pedagogic value of Minix.
>
> We know what happened then.

Yes. His OS stayed a teaching OS has he deeply believed it should.

> > So the answer might be as simple as "The author never tried
> > to get it included", have you even asked the author about this and does
> > s/he even _want_ it in the kernel?
>
> Yes, I asked. Yes, the author has posted patches. He's probably too polite.

Feel free to be his marketing front man. I do however think you are 4 weeks
late for 2.4

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