Re: [PATCH 00/20] Blackfin update for 2.6.22-rc3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 11:53:54 EST




On Wed, 30 May 2007, Robin Getz wrote:
>
> In one of my (how did Andrew word it...) circumlocutious threads about
> Blackfin a while ago, I offered hardware to anyone who wanted to try things
> out. Greg KH was the only person who read through the entire thing, and asked
> (and got one). Offer still good for qualified developers.

I applaud that, but I end up spending all my time on email, and I suspect
that's true for most of the core developers. So I actually suspect that
you'll get much better community and testing from offering these things at
Linux users groups, and similar places where you find people who may be
really interested in getting into something new, and don't already have
some kernel subsystem that they are basically maintaining full time..

Not that offering them to known kernel developers is _bad_, mind you, but
I think you'll actually find that a lot of them end up being so busy with
their current thing that they don't have much time for another
architecture. I know I do..

Linus
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