On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anything else is a maintainance nightmare in the long term. > > Sure, but it provides for localized testing before large scale > deployement later on.
Shouldn't a distribution kernel by production and not testing of random changes? BTW, did you review asfs and the orinco patch properly before including? I haven't seen you as either filesystem or network driver experts on linux lists. Note that this is not a personal attack, I'm no net driver expert either and wouldn't claim I alone could review such a driver. I am familar with filesystem drivers thouch and asfs doesn't pass a review. This is one more reason I'd like to see a maintaince team instead of gazillions of arch maintainers in their own small tower and let as much work as possible upstream. The kernel is a very complex piece of software, and there's very few if any people understanding all parts good enough to make educated decisions whether a change is okay or not.
