On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:53 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > 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. I am not a kernel developer, but I know a little about this indirectly. Whether a project gets accepted into mainline depends on a lot of things, but one of the big ones is how intrusive it is. If it requires changes to many drivers and many places in the kernel, it is much more difficult to get it merged into mainline. This is why, for instance, the Xen hypervisor is still not part of the mainline even though it has been used in production in many places for years (and is officially supported in Red Hat Enterprise). Conversely, the KVM hypervisor is part of mainline already, even though (in my experience) it is not nearly as robust as Xen. But KVM is a much less intrusive set of patches so it was much easier to get it merged. --Greg --Greg -- 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
