I'm going to regret getting involved in this, but here it goes. In my opinion...
New support/structural changes/etc... belong in the Development kernel. At some point I do belive that "some" of these changes should be eligable to be back ported and included in the stable kernel after they are proven. Anybody can write/maintain/distribute a patch to any kernel they want, It just won't get included in a stable tree until the above is met and agreed to by some form of concensus. Deadlocks should be settled by Doom Deathmatches, Russian rollete, or whatever. What ever our policy evolves into I think it needs to be Documented and posted someplace. We may need to talk to other processor trees and Linus so we can get this thing settled once and for all. Conn -- ***************************************************************** If you live at home long enough, your parents will move out. (Warning they may try to sell their house out from under you.) ***************************************************************** Conn Clark Engineering Stooge clark at esteem.com Electronic Systems Technology Inc. www.esteem.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
