On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:52 -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:42:57PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:29 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Which leads me to suggest that it is at least worth having someone with an > > > embedded focus at KS to simply keep an eye out for impacts of generic changes. > > > "Feature parity" is something I often deal with in trying to keep ppc4xx up to > > > speed with the rest of the archs in the kernel. > > > > We're fine with this, if that's how the embedded guys would like to do > > it ... how do you want to nominate the "someone with an embedded focus"? > > We chose the topic driven approach because that's the one it's easiest > > for the Kernel Summit Programme Committee to look at and make attendance > > decisions based upon. However, if all the embedded people want to > > choose their own representatives, that's fine by us too ... as long as > > you can devise a fair process. > > Now, James, I think you haven't been paying attention to the embedded Linux > world...asking us to devise *any* process is much more chaotic than herding > cats. Expecting something everyone agrees is fair would probably take until > at least KS 2010. That being said, we have three people who are listed in > MAINTAINERS under embedded Linux. We might start by seeing which of them > might take up the mantle and vote on the linux-embedded mailing list. Even for someone as inattentive as me, the general problems of getting embedded people to agree the sky is blue did impinge on the peripheral consciousness. Thus: If you can come up with such a process in a timely fashion then fine ... if not, we'll do the topic based one suggested by the PC. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
