Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > To my mind we need to be careful of three things > > - Harming the kernel to work around a potentially country specific > unproven problem for the benefit of a few big corporations only My choice is to provide the option of those to users. I'm not saying to ripping out the code for some users. > - Getting into situations where big companies behind closed doors make > unaccountable decisions about a project they do not own Now, I'm not working for any companies. I can say there is no closed doors for me. > - Setting trends for country specific fixups. There are a lot of > countries and if we keep the US happy we have to keep China happy and > so it goes on. Big corporations employ armies of specialists for these > purposes and make the gain from it. The community doesn't so it should > no more carry the pain of it than of long term stable releases and > supporting five year old vendor kernels I'm just thinking about users. If vendors shipped the buggy code like first buggy patch, I just thought it's more bad for our users. That's all. If there is community decision, I'll be really glad to follow it. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
