Andreas 'Count' Kotes (count@flatline.de) writes:
> Alan seems to have come to the same decision, either by hurrying obedience
> ("Linus wouldn't accept the patch anyhow, so I don't accept it either") or
> for the same reason, either made up from his own thoughts and knowledge or
> from better arguments than those for other solutions.
> The final decision lies in Linus hands anyhow, so lets stop this childish
> bugging around and poking each other and continue to put out code (hey,
> anybody writing journaling code that spans reiserfs/ext3/xfs/etc? ;))
While Alan can be as abrasive and prima-donnish as the next guy at times
(hell, who can't?), on the whole most (not all IMO) of his reasoning makes
good technical sense. I've seen Alan's decisions overridden by Linus a time
or two, but regardless, I can't seem to recall where a decision, either by
Alan or Linus, was completely driven by political concerns, rivalries, or
who's in the inner circle. Linus is the final arbiter of what goes in the
kernel and what doesn't, and everyone knows (and respects that). I'm quite
positive taht Linus would be just as loath to keep good code out of the kernel
as he would to letting bad code in.
All in all, Linux development has probably been the most fair I've seen, which
accounts for why I've been involved for so long and continue to be.
-- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@pobox.com 940/367-2744 cell phone http://www.pobox.com/~erc- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:00:21 EST