From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:44:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:44:54 -0500 Received: from oumail.zero.ou.edu ([129.15.0.75]:6895 "EHLO r2d2.ou.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:44:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:55:08 -0600 From: Steve Kenton Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.63 Nasssty little hobbitsses making ssso many To: lkml Message-id: <3E5E34DC.A4F39BCC@ou.edu> Organization: The University Of Oklahoma MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From the look of the BK snapshot they *are* being integrated. Linus probably knows better than anyone the problems this causes. I think he's right, documentation both internal and external is important if things are to mature. Some will never want to fix this sort of thing because it gets in the way of "real work" but if it's going to be done it should be done before the next fork. Steve > Yes, I know this is a lot of work. But as it stands, it is a lot of > _wasted_ work if the patches aren't being integrated.