Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:25:19 -0800 (AKDT) | From | Britton <> | Subject | features and patch fights fixable by menuconfig or something like? |
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First: I know little about kernel internals.
There have been two big arguments in a row now about spiffy new kernel features and when/whether they should be integrated. It seems to me that the argument could be sidestepped nicely by distributing patches with the kernel and a little bit of work on menuconfig to allow users to easily use patches if they want (with big warning or whatever).
Selfish motivation: I am highly interested in the low latency patch, but I didn't even know it existed until the argument here. I'm not clueless (in fact I am just finishing up my own humble audio app which does the buffered playing recording that has been discussed, this does indeed work beautifully on stock linux), but I simply havn't had time to poke around and investigate/play with kernel patches. I think there are lots of users like me.
If these things could be menuconfig options, then we could let natural selection determine which ones have the highest maintainability/user demand indexes, without any penalty to maintainers of the core kernel.
On the other hand, if the 'band-aid' problem mentioned applies to user feature addiction as well as just the unlikelyhood of a patch ever being backed out once its welded in, I guess this won't work.
Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."
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