Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:17:28 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Accountability |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:58:02AM +1000, Colin McCormack wrote: > I looked at the patch, it didn't look unstable, unclean or insubstantial. It > looked like a fairly straight-forward and elegant mod, to me. > > I note that there have been 4 released versions of the patch, going back to > 2.0.29. One would have thought it was in a reasonable position to go into > 2.2.1. > > Although I am not the author of the work in question, if it was me, I'd be > looking for some reasoned feedback as to why it's not in the kernel already, > otherwise I'd become rapidly disenchanted, discouraged and demotivated. > > I doubt that's good for Linux. > > Colin.
I think your taking this a little too far. Things don't just magically appear in the kernel. The author needs to submit it in a suitable fashion for inclusion. So the answer might be as simple as "The author never tried to get it included", have you even asked the author about this and does s/he even _want_ it in the kernel?
Ben
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