From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:58:12 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:31226 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:58:03 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20011005192748.15cbd9bf.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net> In-Reply-To: <20011005192748.15cbd9bf.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net> <20011005103822.21d1f663.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net> <200110051435.f95EZrvw027128@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Juha Siltala Cc: Horst von Brand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jussi Silvonen Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Past CREDITS files Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:55:17 +0100 Message-ID: <6684.1002362117@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net said: > This is something I'd be interested in as well. When did Linus start > to give out the maintenance of certain parts of the kernel to others? > Does this coincide with the famous "Linus doesn't scale" debate that > Glyn Moody describes as the moment Linux almost forked? And was this > very difficult? Individual filesystems/drivers/subsystems/architectures/protocols have had their own maintainers for years - but those maintainers still have to submit patches, repeatedly if needs be, to Linus for final approval. -- dwmw2