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To: Andi Kleen <andi@...>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@...>, linux-tiny <Linux-tiny@...>, CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@...>, Michael Opdenacker <michael@...>, john cooper <john.cooper@...>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...>
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 3:41 pm

Andi Kleen wrote:

I don't know the detailed history, but my understanding is that
for some of these, mainline attempts were made in the past.

The patchkit gives a place for things to live while they are out
of mainline, and still have multiple people use and work on them.
Optimally the duration of being out-of-mainline would be short, but
my experience is that sometimes what an embedded developer considers
reasonable to hack off the kernel is not considered so reasonable by
other developers (even with config options).  Also, sometimes it
takes a while for a patch to mature to the point where it is
acceptable for general use, while still being usable for
special-purpose projects.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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[Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Tim Bird, (Wed Sep 19, 2:03 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 4:38 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Arnd Bergmann, (Thu Sep 27, 3:00 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 27, 8:06 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Indan Zupancic, (Thu Sep 27, 12:35 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Arnd Bergmann, (Thu Sep 27, 6:21 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Bernd Petrovitsch, (Fri Sep 28, 4:39 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Jörn, (Sun Sep 30, 4:37 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Bill Davidsen, (Fri Sep 21, 8:27 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Tim Bird, (Thu Sep 20, 5:58 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Thu Sep 20, 6:14 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 8:28 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Thu Sep 20, 8:03 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 7:11 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Indan Zupancic, (Thu Sep 20, 5:26 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 7:18 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Kyle Moffett, (Fri Sep 21, 5:34 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Fri Sep 21, 6:05 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Kyle Moffett, (Fri Sep 21, 6:57 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Fri Sep 21, 1:45 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Fri Sep 21, 7:05 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Fri Sep 21, 7:08 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Indan Zupancic, (Thu Sep 20, 7:06 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Sam Ravnborg, (Fri Sep 21, 2:29 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 24, 2:13 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Wed Sep 26, 2:24 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Joe Perches, (Thu Sep 20, 4:16 pm)
Re: [Celinux-dev] Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Tue Sep 25, 7:43 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu Sep 20, 3:58 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 6:02 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Jared Hulbert, (Thu Sep 20, 5:22 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Rob Landley, (Thu Sep 20, 6:53 pm)
Re: printk proposal - (was Linux-tiny project revival), Alexey Dobriyan, (Fri Sep 21, 3:07 pm)
Re: printk proposal - (was Linux-tiny project revival), Rob Landley, (Fri Sep 21, 4:53 pm)
Re: [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Andrew Morton, (Wed Sep 19, 5:28 pm)
Re: [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Michael Opdenacker, (Wed Sep 19, 6:38 pm)
Re: [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Andy Whitcroft, (Thu Sep 20, 5:10 am)
Re: Monster switch for small size (was Linux-tiny revival), Christian MICHON, (Fri Sep 21, 2:35 am)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Andi Kleen, (Wed Sep 19, 3:28 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Tim Bird, (Wed Sep 19, 3:41 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Tim Bird, (Wed Sep 19, 5:29 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Michael Opdenacker, (Wed Sep 19, 6:29 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Christian MICHON, (Wed Sep 19, 3:01 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Wed Sep 19, 2:47 pm)
Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival, Tim Bird, (Wed Sep 19, 3:31 pm)
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