From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20080415130240.1b9b7662.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080415151643.GD2454@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080415165727.GA8783@infradead.org> <20080415113452.e9eacb54.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080415195330.17f63348@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hch@infradead.org, bunk@kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080415195330.17f63348@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:53:30 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > You can continue to ignore my logic, but that won't go unnoticed. > > > > Just as a thought exercise: should we merge a small and well-written > > driver which has zero users? > > We've previously merged ones that fit this category and have one user. Probably incorrectly. > If > the driver doesn't disrupt core code and is useful to help other people > write drivers then I think we should. It may also get more users as a > result. Maybe. > This is a free software project not a business enterprise. And the same principles apply, don't they? We seek to minimise overhead and to use our kernel development hours as effectively as we can. This is particularly important when person A is thrusting additional work onto persons B, C, and D.