From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758187AbYDBDJr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:09:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753907AbYDBDJk (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:09:40 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33947 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752292AbYDBDJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:09:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Stephen Rothwell cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080402112355.c86d9eda.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And I think that's how we all work (and how we _should_ work), but > sometimes people get so used to the fact that some people are fairly > tightly associated with certain code that they think it's about the > subsystem, not about the person. Btw - don't get me wrong - we clearly do try to (and should) make merges easy, and it's why the kernel source code is generally pretty modular and we try to keep things as independent as possible. I'm not at all arguing against that. I'm just trying to explain that at least personally, I just don't see that "modularity" and maintainership as a _primary_ issue. The primary issue is just the interpersonal trust people build up over time. The modularity and trying to keep borders is about practical concerns, and it's important too. But it is still secondary, I think. Linus