Re: Accountability

Colin McCormack (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:58:02 +1000

>> Here's a mirror URL:
>> http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~edpin/epckpt/
>>
>> I'll wait for replies before I suggest a kernel fork.
>
> I would suggest the first thing you want to do is to port it to 2.3.x and
> make it work on 2.3.x. If you can get it stable, clean and solid when 2.4.x
> appears then it is both a good add on patch and its positioned nicely to
> go into 2.5.x . I plan to do the same with the extremely useful swsuspend
> patch for example.

I looked at the patch, it didn't look unstable, unclean or insubstantial. It
looked like a fairly straight-forward and elegant mod, to me.

I note that there have been 4 released versions of the patch, going back to
2.0.29. One would have thought it was in a reasonable position to go into
2.2.1.

Although I am not the author of the work in question, if it was me, I'd be
looking for some reasoned feedback as to why it's not in the kernel already,
otherwise I'd become rapidly disenchanted, discouraged and demotivated.

I doubt that's good for Linux.

Colin.

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