It's same as with Reiser4 [LWN.net]

It's same as with Reiser4

Posted Nov 14, 2008 23:32 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: It's same as with Reiser4 by giraffedata
Parent article: The sad story of the em28xx driver

I read it not as an analogy, but as another example of a developer who had trouble working with people and therefor had trouble getting code merged.

there have been many examples of alternate drivers for hardwar being in the kernel, very few of them have worked out well in the long run, so kernel devs don't want to do more of it.

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It's same as with Reiser4

Posted Nov 15, 2008 5:30 UTC (Sat) by mrec (guest, #41847) [Link]

It's not about a developer having problem to work together with people.
It's about that this code has been available for years

http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/em28xx-new/shortlog

just check the list of contributors, and the maintainer hard fights against it now. The reason for the big patch has always been that the code had to be rebased because the maintainer basically didn't care about anything there.

Another example

http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/dc22320bb695

I don't see any pull request on the mailinglist, Mauro does it offlist excluding everyone else from it. Ok I acknowledge that is what's wanted and how it should be done.

Markus