From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756782AbYLaOX0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:23:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755869AbYLaOXR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:23:17 -0500 Received: from crmm.lgl.lu ([158.64.72.228]:56784 "EHLO lll.lu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754989AbYLaOXQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:23:16 -0500 Message-ID: <495B8042.1080001@knaff.lu> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:22:58 +0100 From: Alain Knaff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , the arch/x86 maintainers , greg@kroah.com, Roland Subject: Re: The bzip2/lzma patches References: <495ADD46.7080601@zytor.com> <495B319B.5080601@knaff.lu> <20081231134218.GC2388@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20081231134218.GC2388@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi Alain. > >> If I may suggest something: what if *YOU* provided a patch (or series of >> patches, or whatever you like) complying to your high stylistic >> requirements > > hpa does not have any high stylistic requirments he just have good taste. > He simply ask you do do a better job and if you want this in then > please follow his advice. > > Asking him to do the job you want to have done is just not the way forward. > > Sam Thanks for the advice. You're right, this is not the way forward. I must admit that I did indeed an huge mistake with this patch. I've initially developed it a couple of years ago for use in udpcast. Once done, regular attention was needed for it to adapt it to new kernels. At one point in time (this September), I figured that I could save that maintenance effort by getting it integrated into the mainline kernel. At the same time, I figured, other developers of embedded systems could profit from it. A win-win situation. Or so I thought. However, now that I look back on the 3 past months, I figure that the amount of effort that I poured into this was disproportionate compared to what I used to spend on maintaining it out of kernel. Even if I continued evolving it until the end of my life, I would spend _less_ time on it than I did in the last 3 months. My conclusion is that I'll continue like I did before last summer: to maintain it on my own website (http://udpcast.linux.lu/source.html) along with udpcast. Anybody is still welcome to use it as he sees fit. If a brave soul with more patience than me wants to plead with the powers-that-be to get it into official kernel, he has my support. But for myself, I give up on this quest, it is simply too much hassle to be worthwhile... Regards, Alain