Jeff Arnold wrote:To be honest you weren't the first to come up with something like this (although you're the first to post to l-k as far as I know). But the usual problem of something that is kept out of tree is that it eventually bitrots and gets forgotten. The only sane way to make such extensions a generically usable linux feature is to merge them to mainline. (2) is a incredibly large amount of work longer time. And when distributions merge your feature they become committed to it so even if you go away they would still need to maintain it on their own. Since they understand how much work this is they likely won't do it in the first place. Really it's far better to just merge if you want it to make it out of the "toy" stage. -Andi --
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