Re: what happend with hwclock patches?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 11:01 am, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:42:49AM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > >  There is active development, see "log" in the devel branch:
> > > 
> > >    http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=log;h=devel
> > 
> > Well, by active development I included "merging patches submitted" e.g. hwclock,
> 
> Sure, but the util-linux-ng is still not in the condition when I'll
> merging patches ASAP. There are tons of others and more important
> patches, there wasn't any tests, there was broken build system ...
> Don't forget that the code has been unmaintained for almost 2 years.

I'd call some of that "catching up with the backlog", which is
of course one kind of development.  OK, so I'm picky; shoot me!

I was pleased to see tests getting added.  It's as if this were
becoming a real software project ... ;)


> Please, be patient at least for next 1-2 months.
> 
> BTW, "active" also means that someone answers your mails. I hope you
> see the change :-)))

Yes indeedy!!


> 
> Also see:
>     http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/
> 
> 
> I believe there is more light now :-)

Yes.  Worth posting a status update to LKML?

- Dave