Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:21:25 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-19 14:42:14 +0200, Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> > wrote in message <20040619144214.B32669@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>: > > jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org <jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org> : > > [...] > > > The framebuffer is also so far behind. 9 out of 10 patches are > > > dropped. The reason being is that everyone is a volunteer doing this in > > > > Do you mean dropped as "Posted on fb-devel but nobody cared" ? > > Maybe. And even that's a sad thing. Work has been done, and (without > knowing the exact state of the fb development) I'm sure James did a good > job on them. Caring for patches (so they make their way upstream) can > take as long as doing the programming. If this work could be layed off, > that would be nice:)
Caring for patches can easily take a multiple of the time to write the patches.
> So we need Rusty's "Not-so-trivial patch monkey(s)"...
:-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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