Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

[Lee Revell]

On 3/4/07, devzero@xxxxxx <devzero@xxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is no mailinglist to approve this and some "central point of communication" besides Rick van Rein doesn't seem to exist. There is a fork named BadMEM at http://sourceforge.net/projects/badmem, Memtest86 also supporting BadRAM and i have seen LOTs of discussion about BadRAM on the net. Most of that discussion was due to problems getting it run with Kernel XYZ.
>
> Basically, this feature is a matter of adding/modifying 200 lines of code, so iŽm even more wondering, why it exists for more than 7 years and nothing happening here.

Because most kernel developers don't have time to scour the net for
random kernel patches and pull them.  If you have a useful patch you
want merged it's up to you to push it.

What's so hard about submitting a 200 line patch to LKML?

Lee
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