From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753520AbXDWGOH (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:14:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751122AbXDWGOH (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:14:07 -0400 Received: from [70.254.190.220] ([70.254.190.220]:34670 "EHLO server.willdawg" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753532AbXDWGOF (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:14:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:14:04 +0000 (GMT) From: William Heimbigner X-X-Sender: icxcnika@server.thyself To: Rik van Riel cc: Eric Hopper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 In-Reply-To: <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.org> <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> <462C4858.3050006@redhat.com> <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > William Heimbigner wrote: > >> However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't >> want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people >> interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't >> keep getting asked. > > There are people interested in using it, yes. > > However, nobody appears to have stepped up to maintain the code. > If somebody really wanted to maintain the code, there would be a > new maintainer already. On that note, what exactly is wanted for (assuming there was a maintainer) reiser4 to be suitable for inclusion in the kernel? To my knowledge (and I'll admit, I haven't looked in to it very far) the primary reason for rejection was that it broke coding standards. If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding standards", would it be included in the kernel? William Heimbigner icxcnika@mar.tar.cc