From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Schoebel Subject: Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:33:35 +0200 References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070726111326.873f7b0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200707270004.46211.dirk@liji-und-dirk.de> In-Reply-To: <200707270004.46211.dirk@liji-und-dirk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1403807.n4uH34JPFY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707270033.41055.dirk@liji-und-dirk.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: ck@vds.kolivas.org Cc: Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Eric St-Laurent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , Rene Herman List-ID: --nextPart1403807.n4uH34JPFY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline =2E..sorry for the reply to myself. As Gentoo user i'm happy about the freedom of choice in almost every aspect= of=20 the system. But with the kernel this freedom is taken away and i'm left with largely=20 choices other people did. Sure, i can get the sources and patch and change= =20 the kernel myself in every aspect but thats more the possibility given by t= he=20 freedom of the open source of the kernel. I think the kernel should be more open for new ideas, and as long as the=20 maintainer follows the kernel development things can be left in, if the=20 maintainer can't follow anymore they are taken out quite fast again. (This= =20 statement mostly counts for parts of the kernel where a choice is possible = or=20 the coding overhead of making such choice possible is quite low.) A problem of Linux is there are 100s of patches and patchsets out there but= if=20 you want to have more than one (since they offer advantages or functionalit= y=20 in different places) you are mostly left alone, start to integrate all=20 patches by hand and solve so many rejects. =2E.still a happy CK user, but sad that Con left the scene. Dirk. --nextPart1403807.n4uH34JPFY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGqSFF6YYnt7muP7IRAhKYAJ4+Ddz90PWa8er9oIBfnXMNtiC74QCgoVV4 QCwRObQ67uRaHoL2PXYa3qs= =VWbr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1403807.n4uH34JPFY-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org