From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161216AbXDWGU4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:20:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161223AbXDWGU4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:20:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45246 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161216AbXDWGUy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:20:54 -0400 Message-ID: <462C5034.9090403@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:20:36 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Heimbigner CC: Eric Hopper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 References: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.org> <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> <462C4858.3050006@redhat.com> <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Heimbigner wrote: > If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding > standards", would it be included in the kernel? While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4 seems to have enough user interest) usually gets accepted. http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge has some hints. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic.