Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> 
>>I am writing to announce the availability of the first draft of
>>the CE Linux Forum's first specification.  This specification
>>represents the efforts of six different technical working groups
>>over about the last 9 months.
> 
> 
> If you want my 2Cent:
> 
>  - stop these rather useless specifications and provide patchkits instead
>  - try to actually submit the patches upstream to get a feeling which
>    of your 'features' are compltely hopeless, which are okay and which
>    can better be solved in different ways.

Thanks.

I strongly agree with you.  I hope that the specifications are not
completely useless.  Hopefully they are good to provide context,
rationale, etc.  However, sending patches upstream is far superior,
and I hope to be able to start sending a stream of them, based
on this work, very soon.

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com
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