Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?
On 06/06/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: > I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that > would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go > into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] > Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that > I can easily answer the ultimate question of "Why not" for myself? There is documentation on how submissions should look like. Some starting points: Documentation/HOWTO Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmitChecklist Documentation/ManagementStyle Other than that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. Good LKML archives to search : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://lkml.org/ Sometimes good summaries of discussions / decision making processes can also be found at http://kerneltrap.org/ You can also search the ChangeLog messages for different patches easily via git-web: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=summary -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?
Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: > I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that > would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go > into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] > Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that > I can easily answer the ultimate question of "Why not" for myself? There is documentation on how submissions should look like. Other than that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. [...] > I would like to write my own lightweight cluster file system and make > modifications to existing cluster file systems. If you don't want to start with an actual submission, you could begin with discussing the specific features you have in mind directly with the developers and maintainers of the existing cluster FSs. Then it should become clearer how to proceed most effectively. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?
Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that I can easily answer the ultimate question of Why not for myself? There is documentation on how submissions should look like. Other than that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. [...] I would like to write my own lightweight cluster file system and make modifications to existing cluster file systems. If you don't want to start with an actual submission, you could begin with discussing the specific features you have in mind directly with the developers and maintainers of the existing cluster FSs. Then it should become clearer how to proceed most effectively. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?
On 06/06/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that I can easily answer the ultimate question of Why not for myself? There is documentation on how submissions should look like. Some starting points: Documentation/HOWTO Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmitChecklist Documentation/ManagementStyle Other than that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. Good LKML archives to search : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://lkml.org/ Sometimes good summaries of discussions / decision making processes can also be found at http://kerneltrap.org/ You can also search the ChangeLog messages for different patches easily via git-web: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=summary -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
