Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Accountability | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:50:41 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I don't think I was implicitly relying upon magic to get it into the kernel. > Let's look at what `suitable fashion' might mean, in this context:
A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to maintain it and fix it.
> I'm reminded of when Andrew Tanenbaum discouraged Bruce Evans and me from > working on a multi-threaded file system for Minix because it'd reduce the > pedagogic value of Minix. > > We know what happened then.
Yes. His OS stayed a teaching OS has he deeply believed it should.
> > 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? > > Yes, I asked. Yes, the author has posted patches. He's probably too polite.
Feel free to be his marketing front man. I do however think you are 4 weeks late for 2.4
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