Unmerged toy [LWN.net]

Unmerged toy

Posted Aug 30, 2024 22:48 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux by jgg
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

Honestly, "unmerged toy" seems like an unnecessarily dismissive term for something like this. How about "out-of-tree useful driver" - a term that we could apply to things like fwctl as well, perhaps :)

The story of why it is unmerged is something I've never quite managed to dig into, but would like to.

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Unmerged toy

Posted Aug 31, 2024 20:32 UTC (Sat) by jgg (subscriber, #55211) [Link] (2 responses)

That's for the feedback John. It is admittedly hard to know where colourful language stops being entertaining and people are offended. For instance down below someone was calling m68k/etc a "museum architecture" which is a phrase I've seen many times before. It seems like a popular and accurate term to describe it, yet I would also think that is dismissive to the consistent work Geert and others put in.

Unmerged toy

Posted Sep 2, 2024 7:34 UTC (Mon) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

Feel free to popularize a different term to describe such architectures. We do need a term for the situation where the effort of supporting an architecture (across the entire project, so including the costs of vetoing changes that would benefit other architectures) exceeds the practical benefits of being able to run the latest kernels on machines of that architecture.

Unmerged toy

Posted Sep 6, 2024 7:36 UTC (Fri) by da4089 (subscriber, #1195) [Link]

> Feel free to popularize a different term to describe such architectures.

"Heritage" is the usual respectful euphemism, I think?