From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753077AbXDWGm0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753084AbXDWGm0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:42:26 -0400 Received: from [70.254.190.220] ([70.254.190.220]:39717 "EHLO server.willdawg" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753077AbXDWGmZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:42:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:42:24 +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: <462C5034.9090403@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.org> <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> <462C4858.3050006@redhat.com> <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> <462C5034.9090403@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: > >> If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding >> standards", would it be included in the kernel? > > While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills > these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4 seems to have > enough user interest) usually gets accepted. > > http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge has some hints. So in conclusion / to answer Eric's question, 1) reiser4 needs a maintainer 2) reiser4 needs the code quality cleaned up 3) Until those two things happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will be included in the kernel. Correct? William Heimbigner icxcnika@mar.tar.cc