From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965352AbXCFRXY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:23:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965356AbXCFRXX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:23:23 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:18389 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965352AbXCFRXW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:23:22 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=nV77oH5ra/vINR80CUOOtMyqYY6rCaF9sh7fSE8cO3ssBykWm4XSCPV6Va+33eERxfjvU6JGvfIrPZgqmp6k1O7IarE3cgGaTjjuz9GsJaUgh3JXvboZgIJbHiKvD/Rk88OkFHnSqW/nk5ZZ+o/ekbUuiHVNdddmxfzBYxQGmsM= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0703060923yc73b796w3aae193ed5f8d9ee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:23:21 -0500 From: "Lee Revell" To: "devzero@web.de" Subject: Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, pavel@suse.cz In-Reply-To: <1663310550@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1663310550@web.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 94b70620b63ae316 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/4/07, devzero@web.de 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