Please don't patronise me. I and several others from the VM/Linux Technical Steering committee of SHARE have been working hand-in-hand with the lab people since SHARE was in San Francisco a few years ago to work out a means of doing co-operative development. Those involved determined it would be a good idea if instead of an uncoordinated approach to kernel development for s390 we could do things in a more planned way. This way we could avoid the reinvention syndrome. We had setup a system on the Marist VM/Linux complex and ported bitkeeper over so that we had up to date kernel sources; there would be general access for the s390 people interested in kernel development; and the lab people could see what we were up to. It was then going to be a matter of submitting our changes to the kernel we made through the s390 maintainer. Technically this was done. Legally we couldn't get it going. Not our legals: YOURS.
So yes, the alternative approach of going through the standard mailing lists appears to be our only option now. We were keen to work closely with the s390 lab so that stuff like my "utterly crap code" could be made less crappy. But please don't complain to me about my complaints when we've been trying to do what we feel has been the best for the s390 Linux branch. -----Original Message----- If you don't try to merge the IUCV driver, then please don't complain once there is a competitive soloution from other parties one day. Merging things makes sure that they are accepted by us from the service perspective, get included into distributions, and become the standard soloution for everyone. Discussing code on the kernel mailing list and working on feedback from people like Martin and Christoph is the only possible way as far as I can tell to get code integrated. Once everyone is happy with the code, it goes in. Btw: That also applies for code that is "invented here". Use your favorite mail archive to look at the discussion around integration of my execute in place code to verify that statement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
