[systemd-devel] Head ups - upstream first no longer applies to the kernel.

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 16 12:13:36 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:23:03AM +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> On 08/16/2016 10:42 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>     As long as this new code doesn't break things for users without those
>     kernel patches, why would you object?  Are you having to maintain these
>     new features for some reason?
> 
> 
> No but I eventually might have to deal with the fallout from such approach.

Really?  How?

> Why cant the kernel community figure this out and solve this upstream first
> since it's quite obvious from the threads that Tejun Heo linked to in that pull
> request that this is a political issue not a technical one.
> 
> Surely Linus and his so called lieutenants can step in and break political
> status quo like that.

That makes no sense at all, sorry.  Work with the upstream developers to
get this resolved, that's all that anyone can do here.

greg k-h


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