On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 23:01 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:30:21AM +0200, MHD.Tayseer Alquoatli wrote: [...] > > I agree .. but i don't understand how new ideas are shared between kernel > > developers without a formal description .. if a new feature or a > > modification to the kernel's internal design going to be done .. how this > > can be specified ? just through sharing the idea in mailing lists ? > > Exactly. And usually there is no "design" other than a half baked idea. > And even with a description of an idea, no one will take you seriously. > You have to show code (hopefully working code) before anyone even pays > attention. And the de facto requirement of a somewhat working protoype implementation as a patch inhibits automatically lots of theoretical discussions of theoretical problems or situations - especially with people who think that having a good idea is the most important thing on "invention" (and the implementation is left to someone else). > > what about design conflicts ? this is the most thing i'm astonished not to > > happen . > > Happens at times, but pretty rarely. I would say it happens quite often. But it is usually pretty fast resolvable if a real prototype/patch is there (since you have a focus for your dispute). > > can you explain please how this are not leading to design conflicts > > without a big picture of the kernel design ? > > There is no "big picture" other than "A relativly POSIX style operating > system" so we are pretty much free to do what we want to do within those > boundries (which is quite large). > > Design conflicts don't happen because it is rare that two different > groups of people show up with two different chunks of working code. For "larger design conflicts" yes. Above I was more on a smaller scale. [...] > But for other "simple" things like new drivers, those get added quite > easily. Yes, there usually no design decisions which influence the rest of the kernel. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
