On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So what are the reasons for its absence from the mainline kernel then? If it > works better than the current mechanisms and is open source, why does it take > years to get it into mainline? Is there some showstopper/disadvantage/problem? I don't actually know, but I would expect that simple intertia is the problem. To get something into the kernel means that the core kernel developers have to deal with it. I know from my own experience, that if I were in the middle of a big coding project, and my eggs were served sunny side up at breakfast rather than over easy, then my head would surely explode. I expect that the kernel.org developers all face much the same kind of problem. There have been many, many deserving projects that were externally developed for *years* before being adopted into the kernel.org kernel, if they were adopted at all. Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
