Re: Preempt-RT patch for 2.6.25
From: Daniel Walker
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 12:08:49 EST
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 06:40 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Dropping someones work from the official tree is an insult to the
> developer that did that work. The *only* reason to drop code is if it
> happens to break something else that already existed or it has been warned
> for at least one year that if no one maintains this code it will be
> dropped. Dropping it for the sake of making "my work easier" is not an
> excuse.
>
> Don't say "well it's only temporary" because it's not. You even expected
> the ones that did the work to "re-port" it to your new tree. Sorry Daniel,
> that's not the way things happen in Open Source.
Steven, this is all out of mainline. It works however we want it to
work.
As I've been saying, had you wanted the architectures included, you
should have said that a month ago. You had a month you review everything
and work with me ..
Daniel
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