Re: Question about Reiser4

William Heimbigner
2007-04-23T06:42:26Z

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.

So in conclusion / to answer Eric's question,
1) reiser4 needs a maintainer
2) reiser4 needs the code quality cleaned up
3) Until those two things happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will be
included in the kernel.

Correct?
William Heimbigner
icxcnika@mar.tar.cc