Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 05/19/04

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To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>

    On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:22:29PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
    > Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > >On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
    > >
    > >>I am writing to announce the availability of the first draft of
    > >>the CE Linux Forum's first specification. This specification
    > >>represents the efforts of six different technical working groups
    > >>over about the last 9 months.
    > >
    > >
    > >If you want my 2Cent:
    > >
    > > - stop these rather useless specifications and provide patchkits instead
    > > - try to actually submit the patches upstream to get a feeling which
    > > of your 'features' are compltely hopeless, which are okay and which
    > > can better be solved in different ways.
    >
    > I should point out that some of the features specified have already been
    > submitted as patchsets. Some were accepted and are in 2.6. Some were
    > rejected, and we are considering the feedback received... (But, we're
    > still hopeful that in the long run, we can make certain things
    > acceptable for inclusion in the mainline tree.)
    >
    > The submissions, so far, have come from member companies or individuals
    > rather than from the forum itself.

    A good example that this is true is section 7.9.2 of your
    "specification".

    It lists under "Work in Progress":
      Kernel SHALL be configuralble with compiler size options, such as -Os.

    Besides the text in the "Rationale" being obviously wrong, this is
    already implemented in kernel 2.6. But the people writing this
    "specification" didn't send a patch - the trivial patch was sent by
    someone who is in no way related to your "Forum".

    cu
    Adrian 

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